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16:29

500 days ago, Gülistan Doku went missing in a city watched by surveillance cameras. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Dersim Women’s Council members flew balloons from Dinar Bridge and shared the photos on Twitter. “First, they said she committed suicide, and then they promised us to find our daughter. The result is a big lie! Man is again protected, the same mindset supports him.”

15:35

Rosa Women’s Association has applied to the Turkish Council of State demanding the cancel of Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, stating that the decision is an unconstitutional decision.

15:33

On the 71st day of their sit-in protest, the Şenyaşar family sits in front of the Urfa courthouse to demand justice for their killed relatives. “Justice should not consist of only this above signboard. This human tragedy should be ended now…” the family said.

12:25

Hunger strikes launched by prisoners have entered their 173rd day. Lawyer Ekin Yeter, member of the Lawyers Association for Freedom (ÖHD), draws attention to the conditions in prisons becoming more aggravated with hunger strikes.

16:37

Members of Kongra Star drew attention to Turkey’s attempts to change the demographic structure of Afrin and to rights violations in the city. “We call on all our people and public opinion to protest this situation. We should raise the level of our struggle.”

15:33

Women’s rights activists in Turkey held a virtual panel titled “Increasing sexism during the pandemic”. The activists drew attention to the increasing violence against women during the Covid-19 pandemic and called for a joint struggle to end discrimination.

13:25

Emine Şenyaşar, whose husband and two sons were killed, and her son Ferit Şenyaşar came to in front of Urfa Courthouse to hold their sit-in protest demanding justice for their killed relatives. “We will keep protesting in front of the courthouse until the prosecutor begins a legal process against 23 persons, involved in the attack on the hospital,” says the Şenyaşar family.

11:57

The protest held by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar demanding justice for their killed relatives has entered its 67th day.

13:02

The protest held by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar demanding justice for their killed relatives has entered its 66th day.

13:01

Free Women’s Movement (TJA) issued a press statement on Israeli attacks at Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. “We stand by the Palestinian people,” TJA said in the statement.

14:52

The protest held by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar demanding justice enters its 65th day. “Everything is obvious but there is no law and justice,” says the tweet posted by the Şenyaşar family.

14:04

The murder of Rifka Cherni by her police officer husband in Tunisia has sparked anger in the country. Tunisian women artists have launched a campaign on social media platforms to draw attention to femicides in the country.

16:59

A United Nations team investigating has announced that they found “clear and compelling evidence” that ISIS committed genocide against the Yazidi minority in 2014.

16:57

Police attacked women unfurling a banner reading, “We don’t give up on Istanbul Convention” at Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Three women were taken into custody after being battered by police.

15:39

73 women’s organizations around the world have issued a written statement and announced that they have launched a campaign against femicides. The statement has been signed by 73 women’s organizations and 181 persons. “We want to unveil and denounce the root of these femicides against our pioneers and precursors of the time of freedom. We want to collectively read the context to know why we are being killed. We want to expose the structures of power that promote and benefit from our criminalization, finger-pointing, and death. We want to interchange experiences of our own justice that from the territories is overflowing the patriarchal, colonial, state, racist, capitalist (in) justice,” says the statement.

15:24

Tunisian Ministry of Women, Family, Children, and Seniors (MFFES), Workers’ Party’s women’s organization Misawa and Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and many NGOs condemned the increasing domestic violence during the month of Ramadan.

14:43

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have held a protest demanding justice for their killed relatives for 64 days. Today, the family posted a tweet to call on bar associations, “Don’t keep silent against this cruelty inflicted using laws,” says the tweet.

13:18

10 years have passed since the Istanbul Convention was opened for signature in Istanbul. Women in Istanbul made drawings of the walls of Topkapi to mark 10 years of the convention. “Istanbul Convention is 10 Years Old”, “Istanbul Convention belongs to us, we don’t give up on it,” women wrote on the walls.

09:28

Eight women inmates in Diyabakır Closed Women’s Prison have reportedly been infected with Covid-19. Their lawyers claim that the women inmates with symptoms haven’t been tested. “My daughter told me that the coronavirus was transmitted by the wardens due to the daily ward raids,” said Adile Işık, mother of Filiz Işık one of the inmates in the prison.

16:56

Mehmet Erdoğan killed his wife Zeynep Erdoğan and tortured his step child in Çankaya district of Ankara.