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While the world keeps on talking about rhetorical disagreements between Turkish and European politicians, about Nazi-comparisons and cows the situation in southeast Turkey has been drifting out of the international focus. 

Not afraid, but free and strong: Last week on  8th March - known as International Women’s Day - thousands of women marched across Turkey to gain national and international attention for their current situation. 

The Turkish daily Hürriyet published a report on February 25 that is supposed to reflect the views of the military high command on some recent developments in the armed forces. The report with the headline “Military headquarters disturbed” has caused strong reactions from the President, the government, as well as the opposition. 

A Kurdish village in Turkey has been under siege for more than 10 days now. 

Wirft man einen Blick auf die Frauenbewegungen zur Zeit des Osmanischen Reiches und der Gründungsphase der Republik Türkei, erkennt man, dass anfangs insbesondere das Recht auf Bildung, das Wahlrecht und die Staatsbürgerschaft als besonders dringend eingestuft wurden. 

Recently released employment statistics indicate that the economic crisis in Turkey has an especially grave effect on the employment conditions for women in Turkey.

They signed a petition one day and their whole lives were changed… 

The Women's Museum brings together women's museums from different countries of the world. 

Repression of civil society is on the rise all over the world. The charter aims to support civil society organizations as activists throughout the world, to advocate for their rights and freedom of action, and to demand government guarantees.

The independent internet freedom watchdog “Turkey Blocks”  reported last Sunday that the Turkish government has started to target the TOR-network, an internet security utensil.