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MAINZ The “Ankaras Puppets on Germany Tour” campaign launched by MAINZ - YXK to expose the cooperation of Turkish and German states continued with a panel yesterday in Mainz. The panel was attended by Nilüfer Koç from KNK and Murat Yılmaz from the leftist, Die Linke. Speakers on the panel...

AMED Peoples Leader Abdullah Öcalan demanded the abolition of the hunger strike and death fast actions against the isolation. After 200 days of hunger strike action, the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair and Colemêrg Deputy Leyla Güven ended her action and is being treated treatment in a private hospital. HDP...

HATAY Berfin Özek was made the victim of an acid attack by Ozan Çeltik. She has since became one of the symbolic names of the struggle against male violence. Berfin shared her face, which she couldn't even look in the mirror, on social media. She said “this face is not...

SWITZERLAND On 14 June 2019, the Swiss Women's Strike will take place with the demand of an end to sexism, inequality and for equal pay to women. On June 14, 1991, the first Swiss Women's Strike was held in Switzerland. More than 500,000 women participated in this strike, which was...

JINWAR Free Women’s Village is an ecological women’s village currently in the heart of Rojava (West Kurdistan/ North Syria). As images of the Women’s Defense Units’ (YPJ) successful resistance against ISIS continue to spread all over the world, the Rojava Revolution has shown the true potential of women. Now, the...

The area of economy is the main field where social crime is based. It is through economy that the society is forced to surrender, particularly women. The role of the conditioned despair of society and individuals is very important in this respect. The “learned helplessness” does not have faith in...

ANTALYA Nurcan Saraç, who lives in the district of Kepez in Antalya, killed a man named Cengiz Aydın as self-defense on 4 June 2018. After the incident, Nurcan was taken into custody and arrested by the court. Nurcan's trial at the Antalya 6th High Criminal Court continued. Nurcan and Cengiz...

THE SUBJECT MAN FACING FEMINISIM  One of the most important strategies for perpetuating the patriarchal domination has been to monopolise the ability to become cultured, limiting the accumulation of knowledge to its exclusive use by the masculine elites. However, access of bourgeois women to education and enlightened ideas opened the...

THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN MODERNITY  The fall of the Western Roman Empire put an end to what is known as the Ancient Age. Little more than 1.500 years separate us from that time, but the large amount of available information allows for an extensive historic analysis that will be...

THE ORIGINS OF PATRIARCHY Most of the pre-state societies documented by anthropologists and explorers consist of communities of hundreds or thousands of individuals with minimal hierarchy. Since those were self-sufficiency societies, the main goals were feeding, procreation and community safety. This will of collective self-defence allowed the evolution of the...