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CENTRAL NEWS Researcher Lyuba Vinogradova (Moscow, 1973) reports on the struggle against sexism that the  notorious Night Witches faced in their own ranks. "Compared to most women in the Soviet army, constantly subjected to sexual harassment and sometimes sexual violence, the 'Night Witches' were a privileged group. Open bullying was...

BEHDINAN, SOUTHERN KURDISTAN The Women's United Revolutionary Movement (KBDH) shared details of actions taken against the fascist Turkish state. The movement noted that their most recent actions are "a vow of revenge for all the women who were murdered, for Pınar, Fatma, Gönül and Seher." The written statement shared by...

ANKARA, TURKEY HDP MP Ayşe Acar Başaran described the most recent wave of rape cases by Turkish military personnel concentrated in Northern Kurdistan as a method of special warfare. Başaran described the debate on withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention as unacceptable. Ayşe Acar Başaran, spokeswoman of the Women's Council of...

CENTRAL NEWS  Found dead in a forest area in Muğla five days after she was reported missing, university student Pınar Gültekin has been laid to rest in Bitlis province. Murdered in Turkey's Aegean province of Muğla, Pınar Gültekin has been laid to rest in Hizan district of Turkey's eastern Bitlis...

CENTRAL NEWS The president of the AKP's youth organisation, Volkan Uzun, was detained after he was exposed on social media for raping his neighbour's dog until it died. The element was found lying naked with the dead dog by police at 04:30am after neighbours alerted security forces, worried about the...

CENTRAL NEWS The Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports accidentally spurted that not even an investigation was launched in relation to a coach named Mehmet Ali Acar, who sexually assaulted 4 athletes, 3 of whom were children, in Konya. Acar was detained only after the despicable incidents were exposed on...

CENTRAL NEWS Bahar Özcan was killed in her sleep by her husband in Istanbul's Büyükçekmece district, while another woman, Mücella Demir, who was found wounded by her husband in her home in Amed's Bağlar district, died on her way to hospital. Bahar Özcan In the Muratçeşme neighborhood of the Büyükçekmece...

CENTRAL NEWS Led by a reckless pilot, Marina Raskova, and commanded by Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya, 115 women made up the 588th Soviet aviation regiment during World War II. Their suicide attacks during the night, while turning off their old Polikarpov Po-2 planes, caused the Nazi army to label them as...

CENTRAL NEWS 46-year-old NŞ was eventually detained by officials after harassing 21-year-old Tuğçe Ç for over a year. The security officials ignored Tuğçe Ç's complaints until she spoke out about the violence on social media, gaining great support. Despite consistently reporting harassment to the Bodrum Police Department for over a...

ŞIRNAK, NORTHERN KURDISTAN YPS-JIN Martyr Rızgar Gever Revenge Unit organized a sabotage action against an armored vehicle belonging to the invading special operations police in Şırnak, within the scope of the “revenge against colonialism and agent-cooperative”. The revenge unit gave the following information in its written statement regarding the action:...