politics

11:04

Since the Arab Spring that took place in the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2011, women have risen up in many Middle Eastern countries to demand their rights and protest all forms of violence.

09:15

HDP Law and Human Rights Commission's Co-spokesperson Nuray Özdoğan reacted to the block on HDP’s treasury financial aid and said that those who want to have a peaceful life should wage a common struggle against this political and judicial violence.

08:00

Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) Co-chair Rûken Ehmed said that the people demanding freedom with the will of the resisting women were targeted in the Paris Massacre.

13:52

Lebanese political activist Lina Hamdan keeps struggling despite losing two parliamentary elections in the country. She stresses that she will continue to struggle until the Lebanese laws and policies are changed and women’s political participation increa

16:32

Freedom Movement Board member Ronak Mecîd stated that women should carry out a joint and organized struggle in 2023 against all problems, particularly against the increasing femicide rate in the region.

12:07

Journalist Simur Rahman pointed to the similarities of the second Paris Massacre with the massacre that took place on January 9, 2013 and called on the French state to reveal the dark forces behind the perpetrator.

12:00

Speaking about the resistance led by Kurdish women and its effects all around the world, activist Kejal Heme Reşîd said that the unity of the Kurds in four parts of Kurdistan would be stronger in 2023.

11:50

HDP MP Semra Güzel was stripped of her MP status yesterday. Reacting to the decision, HDP MPs said, “The decision is a political and unjust decision.”

12:00

“Women will break the chains of slavery and defeat the patriarchal mentality by struggling,” said Arzo Temo, spokesperson of the Sara Organization to Combat Violence against Women.

09:45

Tunisia will hold its parliamentary elections on December 17, 2022 to elect the third Assembly of the Representatives of the People. However, women candidates face obstacles due to the country’s new electoral law. “Women make the change,” said Sana Ghenim

10:34

Turkish state deepens the threat posed by ISIS with its attacks, Şîlan Ehmed, a member of the Future Syria Party, said, “Our people are aware of these attacks and defend their lands.”

11:36

Tunisian women have no hope for upcoming parliamentary elections due to Tunisian new electoral law.

11:45

HDP MP Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit said, “The attitude toward Mr. Öcalan is the same attitude toward the unsolved problems in the country. An isolation is imposed on Mr. Öcalan and a war is waged against the Kurds.

10:45

Pointing out that the Turkish state attacks North and East Syria to expand its invasion area, Zalal Jagar said, “We will not allow Erdoğan to realize his dream.”

11:00

Corcêt Bersom, head of the Syriac Women's Union (SWU), said that women have built democracy against capitalism, stressing that the philosophy of “Jin, jiyan, azadi” is the basis of building a democratic and free life.

09:20

HDP MP Dersim Dağ, who emphasized that the massacres committed by Iran against protesters and by the Turkish state in North and East Syria should not be considered separately, said their fear shows how free women build free societies.

12:00

Speaking about the ongoing Turkish attacks on NE Syria, Menîca Heyder, member of the Kongra Star in Qamishlo, said, “We will defeat the Turkish state as we defeated ISIS.”

08:30

Iranina women are fighting for freedom and equality to live respectfully not to be enslaved.

14:20

Highlighting that the target of the Turkish state and Iranian regime is the resistance and revolution led by women, the women living in Sulaymaniyah said they would wear the resistance of the women of Kobanê against attacks.

13:50

Hêvî Mistefa, member of the Afrin Peoples’ Assembly, stated that Turkey has developed a new strategy by deploying the members of Jabhat al-Nusra to Afrin, warning, “This change is a signal of a greater danger.”