According to Hindu tradition, the widow lived a pariah and does not deserve respect anymore. At the age of 18 years old, she told her life story with tears, suffered all kinds of shame and abuse being raped by members of her husband's family. Now at the age of 28,...
IZMIR Dr Ibrahim Kaya, the professor of Sociology Department at the Dokuz Eylul University Faculty has been exposed after physical and verbal harassing nearly 10 graduate students on different dates. Writings exposing İbrahim Kaya were written on the toilet walls; the dean who noticed the texts had them removed and...
19 July, Rojava Revolution: The Women's Revolution As the anniversary of the Rojava Revolution is approaching, I think that it will be necessary to draw attention to how women are portrayed during and after the Syrian regime, and where women are placed in society. First of all, the Rojava Revolution...
The Kurdish Women's Association was established in 1919 in Istanbul. In the geographical region, while women were forbidden to leave their homes, let alone go to schools, Kurdish women studied medicine at the best schools, and established associations to seek women's rights. The first organization was founded in the 20th...
CENTRAL NEWS According to the UN report, in 2017, nearly 50,000 women and children were massacred by the men closest to them. The UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria, has announced its report on violence against women and children. According to the report, in 2017, nearly...
States and their systems do not give women justice, nor do women need this, pitiful, so-called justice. Murders and massacres of women have reached the highest level in India as in all over the world. But there is a community of Indian women. This community is known as the Pink...
Let us start with the question "Does the state rape". I will return to the 1970s, which is close in social history. Our country is forced to withdraw from social life and business life through increasing pressure. When economic dilemmas begin and the social opposition is growing, then the state's...
“I won’t stop fighting for my country until I die”(Anna Mae) Some time ago we painted the portrait of Anna Mae Aquash on the wall of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. Beside her are the faces of Commandante Ramona from Chiapas, the black American revolutionary Harriet Tubman, the PKK’s co-founder...
“Who is the one that is beautiful? What is worthy and deserving of being loved? Which is the identity and personality that ought to be loved more? Who is in the possession of attitudes that lead to love? We must be able to search, reveal and develop beauty and that...
In this – an apocalyptic – age, when we are forced to confront an ongoing, Orwellian war on terror, which has done much to provoke a resurgence of the far-right around the globe, when “national” and “transnational” governing institutions have been thoroughly co-opted by a plutocratic clique determined to plunder...