editor's pick

10:00

Politician and activist Parvaneh Eskandari is a victim of the chain of murders of Iran in 1998. Before being killed, she was detained and arrested many times due to her activism. But she never gave up and fought capitalist modernity, the latest form of the male-dominated system.

08:50

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, known as la Pasionaria (the Passionflower) was a Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist known for her famous slogan ¡No Pasarán!. She was born on December 9, 1895, Gallarta, to a Basque miner and a Castillian mother. She left school at fifteen after spending two years preparing for teacher's college at the encouragement of the schoolmistress. Her parents could not afford further education, so she went to work as a seamstress and later as a housemaid. She became a waitress in the town of Arboleda. There, she met Julián Ruiz Gabiña, union activist and founder of Socialist Youth of Somorrostro. They married in 1915. They participated in the general strike of 1917. Dolores İbárruri spent nights reading the works of Karl Marx and others found in the library of the Socialist Workers' Centre in Somorrostro.

11:33

“In the Time of the Butterflies” is a movie that can be watched every day. It tells the story of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

08:00

Jennifer Clement is an American-Mexican author. In 2015, she was elected as the first woman president of PEN International. She also served as President of PEN Mexico from 2009 to 2012. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. She is the author of four novels: Gun Love, Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies, and The Poison That Fascinates.

10:18

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.

10:24

November 1 has been celebrated as the World Kobanê Day since 2014. How was this day declared as Kobanê Day?

10:40

Lise Meitner, who did not give up her passion for physics and made great discoveries despite she faced discrimination, died on October 27, 1968, in Cambridge.

11:31

Reyhaneh Jabbari killed Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former Iranian intelligence officer, in self-defense when he tried to rape her in Iran. In 2007, she was arrested for murdering Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. In her statement, she said that Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi had tried to rape her and she killed him in self-defense. In 2009, she was sentenced to death by a Tehran court.

10:20

Meryem Xano, a Syriac woman, told us the story of Mart Schmoni Church, “This story is very similar to today and history repeats itself.”

11:38

Journalist Dilan Ölmez is remembered by her friends on the second year of her death with the legacy of “truth” she left behind.

14:11

Journalist Dilişan İbiş was killed in the attack of ISIS against civilians four years ago. “She wanted to report the atrocity of ISIS against women to the whole world. Dilişan struggled for women’s freedom. She wanted to be the voice of truth,” her colleague says.

10:00

Eqide Osman was killed in the attack of Turkey on a civilian convoy heading to Serêkaniyê. “Eqide Osman never accepted violence against women. She always stood by justice and women’s rights. She was a real friend,” her workmates said when they talked about her.

12:00

Kurdish female politician Hevrin Khalaf was killed on October 12 by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters near the M4 Motorway south of Tell Abyad during the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria. “Women’s revolution was her childhood dream,” her comrades promise to keep her struggle.

10:20

Gurbetelli Ersöz was Turkey’s first female editor-in-chief. She was born in the Akbulut village of Elazığ’s Palu district. When she was born, her father was a worker in Germany and that’s why she was named Gurbetelli (foreign place). When she was a third-grade student at primary school, her difference with her friends and teachers was her language. She began to ask why, how at that time. She studied chemistry at Çukurova University. Later she worked as an assistant at the Çukurova University. She began to get involved actively in politics

09:45

Where Is Anne Frank is a 2021 animated film directed by Israeli director Ari Folman. The film tells from a new perspective the history of Anne Frank who kept a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II. The diary, which was published two years after her death in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has become world-famous. Through the diary, Anne Frank has become a worldwide symbol for the victims of racism, antisemitism, and fascism.

12:36

6/7 September events, also knowns as the Istanbul pogrom, are never forgotten shame in the history of Turkey. Even though we saw the photographs showing how houses, offices, and shops were looted, there were untold stories; the stories of women and children…

10:58

The whole world has become a battlefield. Conflicts, bomb attacks, civil wars, racism, and increasing arms sale continue almost in all countries while people just demand “peace”.

10:18

Singer İlkay Akkaya was born on May 26, 1964, in Istanbul. She studied at Marmara University and began her music career when she became a member of the music group Grup Yorum in 1987. On January 10, 1990, she founded the group Kızılırmak along with Tuncay Akdoğan and İsmail İlknur. By April 2008 the group had released 13 albums. One of her albums is “Köleler ve Kilitler (Slaves and Locks).” The album includes a song with the same name “Köleler ve Kilitler.” The song is about slave trades.

16:16

Raziye Kızıl, mostly known as Dengbêj Gazin, was born in the Tatvan district of Bitlis province in 1959. She began to sing Kurdish songs at a very young age. She released 12 albums and sang songs about sorrows, anger, joys, loves, and fights of her people throughout her life.

09:17

Hayrettin Eren was taken into custody on November 21, 1980. After receiving no news from him, his family began to look for him. They went to Istanbul Karagümrük Police Station and saw his name in the list of detainees. They were hopeful. Police station officials told them Hayri and eight people, who were detained in the same operation, were taken to the police station in Gayrettepe.