Opposition criticizes gov’t over death of 25-year-old Dilek Doğan

A number of opposition lawmakers have criticized the government over the death of 25-year-old Dilek Doğan, who was shot by police in her house during an anti-terror raid and later died of her injuries, saying that nobody should commit crimes in the expectation that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will protect them because …

4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights

The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement. Excavations at the ancient tumulus site began in 1948. So far, it has been discovered the center was where the written …

HDP co-leaders: victory belongs to the women of this country

ISTANBUL – The general co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in their victory speech last night in Istanbul, said the HDP victory belongs to all those who want to live freely in Turkey and the Middle East—but especially to women. The room was packed at Istanbul’s Cezayir Restaurant to hear party general co-chairs Selahattin …

Turkish women defy deputy PM with laughter

Bülent Arinç said women should not laugh in public, prompting backlash and highlighting state of women’s rights in Turkey Twitter in Turkey broke into a collective grin on Wednesday as hundreds of women posted pictures of themselves laughing. They weren’t just happy. They were smiling in defiance of the deputy prime minister, Bülent Arinç, who …