community/life

12:00

After Sedat Peker claimed that Mehmet Ağar is responsible for the unsolved murders, the relatives of disappeared people called on Turkish prosecutors to fulfill their duty. İffet Mutaş’s two brothers were killed after being detained in 1993 and 1994. She demands those who responsible for these deaths should be punished in the most severe way. “Turkey will always face this. We will never forget our loved ones. For this reason, they should judge those who are involved in these deaths instead of ignoring us.”

10:50

Global pandemic conditions for more than a year have caused serious problems for marriages and relationships. The Statistics show that the number of divorce cases has been increasing. Marriage and Relationship Therapist Duygu Esman drew attention to the increasing violence against women and emphasized that ignoring the “silent” violence, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, is backbreaking.

15:53

Circassians commemorate May 21 every year as a day of mourning commemorating the Circassian genocide. Circassians are a people adapting everywhere with their identity no matter where they live in the world. Zahide İshaq, the co-chair of the Circassians’ Aid Association founded on August 14, 2017, told us their story of exile from the Caucasus to Manbij.

14:12

Nexşînê and Kişwar are two women working at the Halabja Monument for 18 years. People visiting the monument are used to see these two women together. Working at the Halabja Monument brings also psychological problems but these two women overcome all problems together.

11:50

In the al-Hol refugee camp, one of the most dangerous camps in the world, Syrian refugees have gradually returned to their homes. As 81 families from Deir ez-Zur city have begun to leave the camp to return their homes with the support of the Syrian Autonomous Administration, women became happy with the decision.

10:46

Although Iranian women have the right to get a license to ride a motorcycle, they are rejected to get it. Iranian women have collected more than 7,000 signatures to get a license.

15:42

Approximately 12.000 people have lived in the Makhmur Refugee Camp and 10%of children are born with various disabilities in the camp. Hevî Center was founded in the camp to support disabled children in 2018. “We can build a world without barriers,” said Xurbet Tunç, the director of the center.

09:33

In Algeria, all kinds of violence against women are considered a crime but no laws have been implemented in practice. The country has signed many international conventions to prevent femicides and all kinds of discriminations against women since 1979 but 14 women were killed in the country in the first quarter of this year.

08:18

Şükrü Demir, Abdulkadir Demir, Mehmet Emin Atuğ, and Hizni Birmen are just four persons, who were forcibly disappeared after being taken under custody in Turkey. Their families have struggled for them demanding justice. Fatma Atuğ wants to know what happened to her two brothers, husband and Hizni Birmen, “I won't die without learning what happened to them,” she said.

12:48

Turkey has reduced the levels of water flowing downstream in Rojava since January 27. Water outrage has turned into a water crisis in the region now. Water in the region smells bad due to the low water levels. Authorities fear that many diseases, especially cholera and malaria, will soon emerge in the region. 83 villages of Kobanê have suffered from the water outrage and they meet their potable water by carrying water. Hundreds of acres of crops dried due to water outrage in Hasekê, where the levels of water in rivers are the lowest level in history.

12:46

Palestinian activist Faten Shelbaya, who live in the US and Canada as a refugee for years, has been appointed to the Human Rights and Fair Housing Commission in Maden city.

14:48

Unemployment and poverty drove a woman to attempt suicide in the Yazd city of Iran.

11:17

Yasmin Rafihi is a Yemeni woman. She was rejected by her family members for trying to build a life with her boyfriend after the death of her father in Lahij city of Yemen. She then made a decision on her own life and left the house but she was arrested by the security forces and delivered to her family. There has no news from her since then. After her missing, women’s rights activists wrote a letter titled, “Don’t kill Yasmin!” to find her.

10:15

As living life in a wheelchair, Elfe Balî is a role model for everyone around her with her cheerful smile, hopeful heart and strong stance. Her greatest weapon is her patience. She is among those who work; overcome difficult circumstances and say, “I also exist” despite all the obstacles of life.

08:14

Bedriye Gümüş was killed in front of her house located in the Kuşkaya village of Mardin’s Nusaybin in 1992. Her mother has been demanding justice for her daughter for 29 years. “Our struggle is for peace and justice” said her sister Hayriye Doğan, who joins weekly protest of relatives of disappeared by carrying one of her sister photographs.

11:24

Arwa Fadıl Muhammed Salih was a classical housewife before her husband went missing five years ago. She is now a human rights and an active member of an association for disappeared people. Arwa has looked for her husband and 744 Yemeni citizens who have disappeared in Yemen.

10:03

Êzidî women have learned their history. “Our horizon has expanded and we have started to know other worlds as we learn our history,” they said.

13:47

Êzidî women, who were forcibly displaced from Shengal by ISIS, have returned to their holy land. “We will never again leave our land” said Êzidî women, who have rebuilt their lives.

16:07

Maria Samaan has launched the “Role Model in Education” campaign in Beirut with the dream of a world without violence against women and children. She told us that they have already formed a psychological counseling network and distributed booklets in some regions of the country within the scope of the campaign. Maria Samaan called on families and said, “Let’s raise a nonviolent generation.”

14:34

The suicide rate among women in Idlib city of Syria has increased. Women don’t kill themselves but they have been driven to suicide, said Nûr El-Xatîb, a sociologist working for social service, “There is no mechanism that can protect and defend women in Idlib. Yes, the female suicide rate is increasing.”