community/life
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Interviews with women about violence against women
Femicide has been increasing day by day while we should talk about violence against women. The issue of femicide has become the main topic of conservation. We interviewed women in the streets of İzmir. Women demand new stricter laws to be enacted to prevent violence against women.
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TükoDer launches a membership campaign
Leyla Demir, a board member of TükoDer, emphasized that their associations always stand by consumers against capital. Leyla Demir said; “We have launched a membership campaign to increase the number of our association’s members. We get support from trade unions and city councils.”
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Peace Mother faces 106 investigations
Hava Kıran is one of the Peace Mothers. She has been struggling for peace despite her age but she has been taken into custody many times. Hundreds of investigations have been opened against her. The Peace Mother says she has no gun but investigations have been opened against her for demanding peace.
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New business field: Cycle instructor
A young female entrepreneur Canses Özel has turned her passion for cycling into a business. The main motivation for her is to realize the dreams of people, mostly women, who don’t know how to ride a bicycle. “We are here. People should take a step to realize their uncompleted dream,” the cycling coach says that the interest of people in bicycle lessons has increased during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Three women who turn minefields into living spaces
They are three women who have witnessed the most painful truth of the war. They collect mines in minefields to save civilians and to heal their wounded hearts.
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Sıla's journey with tales
Sıla Topçam is a taleteller, one of the oldest known professions. The taleteller is going to open a fairytale school along with educators from different disciplines. Stating that the tales are shaped by narrators, Sıla says, “Tales are ancient works of hundreds of years. There is a problem if the narrator tells them as weak and in need of being saved. But the real problem is not in the tales, but in the meanings given by the people who tell the tales.”