Stating that they will send trustees in the local elections, DEM Party Women's Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu said: "This is women's time, cities will be women's cities. We are ready to build women's municipality."
A lawsuit was filed against our reporter Zeynep Durgut and 17 women who were subjected to police violence on the Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It was claimed that police violence was "measured and within the scope of authority".
61 women political prisoners in Evin Prison started a hunger strike to protest the execution of Mohammed Qabadlo and Farhad Salimi. The prisoners' hunger strike received support from human rights activists and artists.
Yusuf Yılmaz, seriously injured Derya Uzelli Yılmaz, with whom he was in the process of divorcing, in Bornova. He murdered his 4-year-old daughter Linda Yılmaz and his wife's mother.
The body of a woman was found in Köyceğiz Ekincik Bay.
KESK Women's General Secretary Döne Gevher Koyun stated that there is a need for council models where local needs and solutions are discussed jointly and emphasized that a democratic municipality is possible with participatory functioning.
Kurd women, who intervened in local governments dominated by masculine power with the "co-chair" model, ensured equal representation as well as further increase in women's gains.
Reacting to the murder of women activist Firyal Süleyman Halid from Hesekê in Kirkuk, TJA said, "We know the forces behind the assassination very well."
Municipalities run by women around the world make sustainable cities possible through social municipalism with their investments and projects.
According to CFWIJ's December 2023 report, there were 76 rights violations against women journalists and 6 journalists were murdered.
Representatives of women's organizations stated that the detentions made in Istanbul aimed to criminalize women's work and emphasized that their struggle is justified and legitimate.
In the statement made about the international conference of TJA, it was stated that "Women stated that the struggle and solidarity must be continued and increased until the practices that are a part of the attempts to break their will and take over and that are against human dignity end."
Giving the closing speech at TJA's "Chain of Silence" conference, TJA member Gülbahar Alpsoy said: "Women will break the chain of silence."
Describing his daughter Leyla Şaylemez, who was murdered in Paris 11 years ago, father Abdulbari Şaylemez said: "Both as a father and as a member of the public, I admired the awareness and fighting spirit she acquired at a young age."
Mothers for Peace Halime Kaya, whose village was burned, her husband was tortured and her son was maimed, continues her struggle for years at the Justice Watch today. Kaya said: “Our lives are lost, but our honor remains. We are fighting for the truth."