Category Archives: Feminist Protests

Radikal: Burcu Sarak tells what she’s gone through in the Gezi lockup

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Music group Grup Abdal’s singer Burcu Sarak was taken into custody on the 6th of July. Her mother was also taken into custody because she didn’t want to let the police take her daughter. Burcu Sarak tells what she has gone through in the detention house: “They made my friend strip stark naked; they insulted and swore me; they didn’t [...] → Read the full article…

Hürriyet Daily News: FEMEN stages protest against Turkish government at Istanbul airport

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Source for the image: bianet.org One suspected FEMEN activist flashed her breasts at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport to protest Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. She also unfurled a banner reading “Erdoğan from Istanbul To Kabul.” She was immediately detained by police. A feminist activist from the radical protest group Femen is arrested by Turkish police as she protests against [...] → Read the full article…

The New York Times: Protests Squelched, Gay Rights March Brings Many in Turkey Back to the Streets

At least 20,000 demonstrators marched in support of better treatment and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. When the first gay rights parade was organized here in 2003, only a few dozen people dared to take part. But on Sunday, at least 20,000 people joined the march, many of them holding rainbow flags and chanting slogans denouncing [...] → Read the full article…

Women’s Coalition Turkey

We are calling upon the government: immediately stop police violence and the aggressive, threatening and condescending attitude against the people. The peaceful sit-in began to counter planned construction at the Taksim Gezi park, which would replace one of downtown Istanbul’s few green spaces with a shopping mall, has evolved  into  nationwide demonstrations and people’s resistance as a result of the [...] → Read the full article…

Socialist Feminist Collective

Women are in rebellion! And you can’t stop it with gas, tanks, batons! Women are resisting along with all oppressed groups for the last two days! Workers, Kurds, LGBT’s, Alaweits, Muslims, non-Muslims, atheists and all the oppressed, exploited, insulted, constantly blamed to be the traitors are rebelling in Turkey. The resistance that started in Gezi Park in Taksim İstanbul spread [...] → Read the full article…