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09:45

Jinnews, which reports on many issues such as harassment, rape, war crimes, isolation, attacks against women, and unlawfulness, has been prosecuted for their news and its website has been blocked to access 31 times. “We are the voice of women and this is our source of energy. The most important thing for us is the struggle, not pressures,” says Safiye Alağaş, the news director of Jinnews.

15:50

Women gathering at the Ankara’s Tunalı Hilmi Avenue unfurled a banner reading “We stop the life” and blocked the traffic. “We don’t withdraw from Istanbul Convention, we don’t accept one-man’s decision,” the women shouted. Female lawyers made a statement in front of the Sıhhiye Courthouse and distributed brochures. The women said, “We want to protect our lives and rights.

14:00

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have held a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse demanding justice for 115 days. “Justice will be delivered one day,” the family said.

10:30

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) female MPs have announced that they have withdrawn from the Turkish parliamentary commission investigating the reasons for the violence against women. The Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions was invited to the commission but the unions have refused the invitation.

10:17

Turkey’s Presidential Decree published on March 20 announced the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention. Turkey has formally withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention on Thursday.

08:00

Verdict in Elmalı child abuse case continues to spark outrages in Turkey. Actresses Hafsanur Sancaktutan and Seray Kaya announced on their social media accounts that they were also subjected to sexual abuse when they were children and that they will stand by children, who were subjected to sexual abuse by their mother and stepfather in the Elmalı district of Antalya province of Turkey.

14:26

Emine Şenyaşar hasn’t made her voice heard for 114 days. “We are being persecuted,” said Emine Şenyaşar, who made a telephone conversation with her son Fadıl Şenyaşar being held in Elazığ Prison for three years.

09:56

“Êzidî women gave a strong response to the invasion attacks by holding this conference far from their country,” said women attended the Conference of Rojava Êzidî Women's Union.

09:18

Êzidî Women's Union held its first founding conference with the motto, “With the thought of the Democratic Nation, the Êzidî Women Will Attain Victory.” Dozens of women from Shengal and Germany also attended the conference. The women decided to found Êzidî Women’s Council.

15:49

Free Women’s Movement (TJA) members hung a banner reading, “Istanbul Convention keeps alive” on a footbridge in the Silopi district of Şırnak province.

13:43

The prosecutor of the investigation into the killing of three members of the Şenyaşar family has been changed again. The eighth prosecutor has been appointed to the investigation case. Ferit Şenyaşar criticized the appointment with the following words, “We live under persecution through judgment.”

10:45

Avcılar Women’s Platform protesting Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, which will come into force on 1 July blocked traffic. “Let’s raise our voice,” the women shouted.

17:02

A woman named E.O. was attacked with a knife by her ex-husband in Istanbul. The man waited for her to die.

15:03

Female university students closed a Metrobus route in Istanbul to make a call for a protest to be held at Istanbul’s Taksim Square on July 1 for the Istanbul Convention.

14:42

Saudi Arabia has released two women’s activists after they served their time in prison.

13:35

Tunisian Association of Democratic Women held its 13th congress. During the congress, women remembered Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi. Human rights lawyer Radhia Nasraoui received an award for her works.

12:57

The sit-in protest staged by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar demanding justice for their killed relatives has entered its 112th day.

12:19

Human Rights Association (HRA) issued a press statement about the police attack on the LGBTI+ Pride March.

11:55

Many female artists, journalists and writers in Turkey have launched a social media campaign for the Istanbul Convention.

17:27

In Iran, at least seven women were killed; the deaths of at least 10 women were reported in the press as “suicide” in June.