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. 

While Turkey is heading towards a constitutional referendum, that might change the nature of Turkish politics, the government has accelerated its urban planning policies. 

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.

It were the dock workers, who detected an oil spill in the late hours of January 12 at the Bay of Izmit in the Eastern Marmara Sea.

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

The biggest city of Turkey, and its economic heartland, Istanbul has ended the year 2016 with power cuts over several days. 

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