16:02 08/3/2015 |
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The rally for March 8, International Women's Day, has kicked off with a march in Istanbul.
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15:55 08/3/2015 |
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YPJ (Women's Defense Units) General Command has issued a statement to mark International Women's Day, stressing that there can be no revolution and freedom without women.
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10:39 08/3/2015 |
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YJA Star (Free Woman Troops) guerrillas are preparing to celebrate March 8 International Woman Day which they say is a day of resistance and struggle of women.
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09:42 08/3/2015 |
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Thousands of women who have converged on South Kurdistan to kick off the World March of Women marched through the city to the accompaniment of erbane drums, in spite of police repression, and attended a concert.
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09:38 08/3/2015 |
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Eight theatre-lover women, who want to spare their off-time to art, constituted a theatre team comprised of factory workers.
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18:31 07/3/2015 |
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This International Women's Day, women will take to the streets in 20 separate cities in Turkey for rallies against the harassment, rape, killing and exploitation of women. In addition to the urban rallies across Turkey,Kurdistan will also see celebrations and festivities across the towns and villages, where March 8 is a major event in the calendar and women take to the streets in traditional Kurdish clothes.
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18:09 07/3/2015 |
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Thousands of women converged on the border between Qamişlo city of Rojava and Nusaybin district of Mardin to declare that they do not recognize the artificial nation-state borders separating them.
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12:52 07/3/2015 |
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Women taking part in the 4th international action of the World March of Women (WMW) have converged on the border as women on the Rojava side of the border, in Qamişlo, come to meet them. Simultaneous rallies on either side of the border were celebrated with slogans in praise of the Rojava women's revolution and the YPJ (Women's Protection Units).
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11:05 07/3/2015 |
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Women have built Kurdish Woman Memorial at the city square of Amûde city
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11:02 07/3/2015 |
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Kaos GL Association announced the program of the 4th International Feminist Forum to be held in Ankara on March 14-15. This year’s Feminist Forum will include panels on political representation and participation, women’s publishing experiences, lesbian feminism and a workshop on orgasm.
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10:57 07/3/2015 |
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Women's studies and women's work were on the agenda in Nusaybin during the afternoon panels of the World March of Women (WMW) yesterday.
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22:41 06/3/2015 |
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Association for Support of Women Candidates (KA.DER) released its annual “Women-Men Equality at Representation” report, saying that the women’s representation situation remained “immobile”.
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16:51 06/3/2015 |
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Thousands of women held a March 8 rally calling for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed PKK leader whose philosophy emphasizes women's liberation, in the town of İdil.
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16:48 06/3/2015 |
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In the village of Mehser, along the border with Kobanê, thousands of women gathered to celebrate March 8, International Women's Day. Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Selma Irmak, speaking before the assembled women, said that Kurdish women are writing history through their organized resistance.
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16:46 06/3/2015 |
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"Equality and freedom can only be attained on the basis of the women issue. This is why our revolution is a women's revolution," read a message from Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan marking 8 March International Women's Day.
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16:45 06/3/2015 |
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Women in Nusaybin spent the morning discussing democratic confederalism and the exploitation of nature in two simultaneous panels assembled for the first day of the World March of Women. HivaErabo, chair of the Cizîrê Canton court of justice in Rojava, explained that in Rojava, Arab, Assyrian, Syriac and Kurdish women take part in all parts of life, reorganizing life according to the model of the commune.
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12:31 06/3/2015 |
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As thousands of women have begun to rush to Mehser village at the borderline of Kobanê, it's been stated that March 8 rally message of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan will be read in the rally.
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12:10 06/3/2015 |
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This March 8, JINHA (Woman News Agency), headquartered in Diyarbakır in Northern Kurdistan, will enter its fourth year of producing news by and about women in all four parts of Kurdistan, Turkey and beyond.
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11:28 06/3/2015 |
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Today in the border city of Nusaybin, signs and banners in Kurdish, Turkish, Syriac and Arabic adorned the front of a crowd of women as the World March of Women's fourth international action got underway. Different languages, cultures and religions have danced halays (Kurdish fold dance) hand in hand in Nusaybin.
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11:18 06/3/2015 |
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Ahead of March 8, women in ten separate cities of Northern Kurdistan and Turkey took to the streets to cry "on with the resistance" and to greet the women's revolution in Rojava yesterday. The activities are only the latest in the series of International Working Women's Day celebrations in the region, which will culminate today with the beginning of the World March of Women in Nusaybin.
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