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10:24

November 1 has been celebrated as the World Kobanê Day since 2014. How was this day declared as Kobanê Day?

10:40

Lise Meitner, who did not give up her passion for physics and made great discoveries despite she faced discrimination, died on October 27, 1968, in Cambridge.

11:31

Reyhaneh Jabbari killed Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former Iranian intelligence officer, in self-defense when he tried to rape her in Iran. In 2007, she was arrested for murdering Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. In her statement, she said that Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi had tried to rape her and she killed him in self-defense. In 2009, she was sentenced to death by a Tehran court.

10:20

Meryem Xano, a Syriac woman, told us the story of Mart Schmoni Church, “This story is very similar to today and history repeats itself.”

11:38

Journalist Dilan Ölmez is remembered by her friends on the second year of her death with the legacy of “truth” she left behind.

14:11

Journalist Dilişan İbiş was killed in the attack of ISIS against civilians four years ago. “She wanted to report the atrocity of ISIS against women to the whole world. Dilişan struggled for women’s freedom. She wanted to be the voice of truth,” her colleague says.

10:00

Eqide Osman was killed in the attack of Turkey on a civilian convoy heading to Serêkaniyê. “Eqide Osman never accepted violence against women. She always stood by justice and women’s rights. She was a real friend,” her workmates said when they talked about her.

12:00

Kurdish female politician Hevrin Khalaf was killed on October 12 by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters near the M4 Motorway south of Tell Abyad during the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria. “Women’s revolution was her childhood dream,” her comrades promise to keep her struggle.

10:20

Gurbetelli Ersöz was Turkey’s first female editor-in-chief. She was born in the Akbulut village of Elazığ’s Palu district. When she was born, her father was a worker in Germany and that’s why she was named Gurbetelli (foreign place). When she was a third-grade student at primary school, her difference with her friends and teachers was her language. She began to ask why, how at that time. She studied chemistry at Çukurova University. Later she worked as an assistant at the Çukurova University. She began to get involved actively in politics

09:45

Where Is Anne Frank is a 2021 animated film directed by Israeli director Ari Folman. The film tells from a new perspective the history of Anne Frank who kept a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II. The diary, which was published two years after her death in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has become world-famous. Through the diary, Anne Frank has become a worldwide symbol for the victims of racism, antisemitism, and fascism.

12:36

6/7 September events, also knowns as the Istanbul pogrom, are never forgotten shame in the history of Turkey. Even though we saw the photographs showing how houses, offices, and shops were looted, there were untold stories; the stories of women and children…

10:58

The whole world has become a battlefield. Conflicts, bomb attacks, civil wars, racism, and increasing arms sale continue almost in all countries while people just demand “peace”.

10:18

Singer İlkay Akkaya was born on May 26, 1964, in Istanbul. She studied at Marmara University and began her music career when she became a member of the music group Grup Yorum in 1987. On January 10, 1990, she founded the group Kızılırmak along with Tuncay Akdoğan and İsmail İlknur. By April 2008 the group had released 13 albums. One of her albums is “Köleler ve Kilitler (Slaves and Locks).” The album includes a song with the same name “Köleler ve Kilitler.” The song is about slave trades.

16:16

Raziye Kızıl, mostly known as Dengbêj Gazin, was born in the Tatvan district of Bitlis province in 1959. She began to sing Kurdish songs at a very young age. She released 12 albums and sang songs about sorrows, anger, joys, loves, and fights of her people throughout her life.

09:17

Hayrettin Eren was taken into custody on November 21, 1980. After receiving no news from him, his family began to look for him. They went to Istanbul Karagümrük Police Station and saw his name in the list of detainees. They were hopeful. Police station officials told them Hayri and eight people, who were detained in the same operation, were taken to the police station in Gayrettepe.

09:45

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was born on July 3, 1860 and died on August 17, 1935. She was an American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.

10:42

Judith Butler is a philosopher and gender theorist. In her book “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”, she explores the production of identities such as homosexual and heterosexual and the limiting nature of identity categories. According to Butler, homosexual identity categories cannot be stable and if they became stable they would stop being appealing to her because she is attracted by their instability. She says, “I'm permanently troubled by identity categories; consider them, as sites of necessary trouble. In fact, if the category were to offer no trouble, it could cease to be interesting to me: it is precisely the pleasure produced by the instability of those categories which sustains the various erotic practices that make me a candidate for the category to begin with.”

10:51

Mardin Mahmut Fetah was born in 1984, Halabja. When she was a child she lost her family in the Halabja Massacre. She was adopted by an Iranian family. She returned to Halabja after finding out she was adopted. She founded “Association for Finding the Lost Children of Halabja” to find the missing children of Halabja. Her story is actually the story of all the missing children of Halabja. On August 4, she died of cancer at the age of 37. She dedicated her life to finding the missing children of Halabja. Today, we want to share her story published by NuJINHA on March 16, 2021.

14:47

13 Roses (Spanish: Las Trece Rosas) is a 2007 Spanish war film directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro. It tells the story of 13 women and 43 men, who were executed by a Francoist firing squad just after the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War. 13 women were executed by a Francoist firing squad on August 5, 1939.

14:00

On August 3, 2014, ISIS committed genocide against Yazidis. The fate of thousands of women is still unknown and Yazidi women are still being sold at slave markets.