2016 Feminist Night March

İstanbul – Taksim

2016 in review

Meeting convened by
Istanbul Feminist Collective
Banner slogan
Feminist struggle for our labour, our bodies, our sexuality and our liberation
Route
French Cultural Centre - Tünel
Meeting point
French Consulate, 19:00

2016: Feminist struggle for our labour, our bodies, our sexuality and our liberation

Signed by: Istanbul Feminist Collective

As preparations for March 8, 2016 began, several decisions had been made about the Istanbul Feminist Collective (İFK). The Socialist Feminist Collective (SFK), part of İFK, was discussing whether to renew or dissolve itself and had decided in late 2015 to limit its outward-facing activities. The autumn 2015 issue of its magazine Feminist Politika was its last. After Amargi’s dissolution in December 2012, another feminist organisation had thus suspended its activities. SFK handed its premises over to feminists, and during the 2016 march preparations a volunteer committee began reorganising it as Feminist Mekan and building a solidarity network. Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways also said it could no longer follow İFK’s activities, and Filmmor withdrew around the same time. On July 9, 2015, İFK announced it was limiting its activities, and in November it closed its internal mailing list. Its name was still used for some work, including Women Are Reclaiming Their Lives. Preparations for the 2016 March 8 Feminist Night March also began with a meeting invitation signed by İFK. This was the last year to begin under that name.

With İFK’s mailing list closed, proposals and discussion topics were sometimes raised on cinayetlereisyandayiz@googlegroups.com. Meeting notes were sent there, to feminist@yahoogroups.com and to independent feminist women’s groups.

During the preparations, the Women’s Initiative for Peace and the Emergency Action Group Against Femicide remained very active. The Women’s Initiative for Peace was running a campaign called ‘We Stand for Life’. On July 14, 2015, LezBiFem held an action in Kadıköy foregrounding lesbian and bisexual visibility, with the banner ‘We are lesbians, we are bisexuals, we are feminists; we will not fall into line’. People from LezBiFem actively attended the 2016 preparatory meetings.

The ‘resolution process’, whose foundations were laid in 2009, had continued through 2015 despite intermittent tensions. On July 17, 2015, President Erdoğan declared that he did not recognise the ten-point ‘Dolmabahçe Agreement’ announced with AKP and HDP participation. Turkey went into the June 7 election in the shadow of the June 5 bombing of an HDP rally in Diyarbakır that killed five people. The AKP received 40.8 per cent of the vote and lost its parliamentary majority for the first time. The AKP annulled the June 7 election, and conflict escalated on the way to a new election on November 1. Bombs began exploding across Turkey. On July 20, the Suruç massacre killed 33 people. On September 8, HDP buildings were attacked nationwide. Between June 7 and November 1, Turkey’s deadliest massacre took place in Ankara: two suicide bombers attacked the October 10 peace rally, killing 103 people. Fighting took place in Cizre, Sur and Silopi. On February 7, 2016, more than a hundred people were killed in basements in Cizre. As preparations for the March 8 march continued, there were fears of a similar massacre in Sur.

In this atmosphere, the first preparatory meeting on February 11, 2016 concluded that the main theme could emphasise feminist struggle, solidarity and women’s strength. The march would begin outside the French Consulate at 19:00 and head towards Tünel. As since 2014, working groups were established. Volunteers were assigned to a texts committee to write and circulate the call and press statement, a visuals committee to propose images and social media invitations, a party committee to arrange the venue and celebration afterwards, and a budget committee. The meetings discussed appropriate intervention to prevent cis men from joining a march open to women and trans people, and using megaphones to ask men to leave the square.

Weekly preparatory meetings for the fourteenth Feminist Night March on Tuesday, March 8, began on February 11, 2016. Preparations were announced in a text addressed to women and trans people, entitled ‘A March 8 Calendar for Feminists’ and signed ‘feminists’. As in 2015, a questionnaire was sent from feministler@gmail.com to mailing lists addressing those saying ‘I Want to Help Prepare the March 8 Feminist Night March Too!’. It asked when, where and with which tasks they could help within the announced schedule. Options included making banners and placards, helping with work after 13:00 on March 8, setting up and staffing stalls, carrying foam-board placards at the front, pulling the sound cart, leading chants, selling tickets at the party entrance and selling badges.

Women and trans people were invited to distribute leaflets and collectively devise slogans at a workshop. On Sunday, February 28, a stall opened outside Süreyya Opera House in Kadıköy at 15:00, followed by a slogan and placard workshop at SODİD at 17:00. Participants finalised the chants and the main banner: ‘Feminist struggle for our labour, our bodies, our sexuality and our liberation’. In response to the massacres between June 7 and November 1, the deaths in Cizre, Silopi and Sur, and the curfews, the placards and press statement stressed the demand for peace. One foam-board sign read ‘Sur, Cizre, Silopi... Women do not consent to this war’. Stencilling and wall-writing followed meetings of the Yoğurtçu Women’s Forum. Other stalls were set up outside Galatasaray High School and at the entrance to Mis Street. The calendar also included the daytime March 8 rally planned for Sunday, March 6, but it was banned for the first time that year. Women gathered in Kadıköy, dispersed through the market area and marched there.

On March 3, 2016, an announcement to mailing lists explained that weekly organising meetings had been taking place and that the final meeting would be on Friday, March 4 at Feminist Mekan; notes from the previous meeting were attached. İFK also invited more feminists to come together to organise the march for the fourteenth time. On the night of March 6, İFK’s Facebook page was hacked. A false announcement claimed that the Taksim march was cancelled and moved to Yenikapı. The account was quickly recovered and the invitation corrected.

During the 2016 march there were frequent arguments with police, particularly over chants about Sur, Cizre and Kobanê. After the march dispersed, police in Galatasaray tried to silence those chanting to draw attention to Cizre, Sur and Silopi. There was also debate about women from groups such as KJA and Kampüs Cadıları walking together and chanting their own slogans rather than joining those led by the march stewards. Kampüs Cadıları shared a video presenting itself as a separate group within the march.

A poster and invitation announced a post-march gathering at The Mekan at 21:00, where Ritim Kolektif would perform. An entrance fee of 5 lira was charged for the first time, and a female-symbol stamp was applied to participants’ arms at the door. The party was packed; there was no room left at The Mekan.

Evaluation meetings noted that identity, bodies, sexuality and war were prominent, while there were fewer placards and messages about labour and capitalism. They also noted insufficient emphasis on trans murders. One of the year’s most popular slogans was ‘There’s fuck-all in the fridge; there’s revolt on the streets’. Organisers said they needed to reach the gathering point earlier: the crowds and congestion made it difficult even for those with megaphones to organise the space, and keeping the main banner at the front and participants behind it took considerable effort.

It was reiterated that the Feminist Night March had no VIP protocol, and that its principles therefore neither prioritised nor accepted members of parliament taking precedence at the front banner.

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2016

Call to Action

Call to the March 8 Feminist Night March: We meet at 19.00 in front of the French Cultural Center! To women and trans people: Call to the March 8 Feminist Night March For 14 years, every March 8, we feminists have held a night march in Taksim with our purple flags and feminist symbols, raising our voices against patriarchy, capitalism and heterosexism. After a year in which attacks on our lives have not let up and we have continued to defend our lives, this March 8 we will once again raise our rebellion against male domination and strengthen our feminist solidarity. Istanbul Feminist Collective

2016

Press Statement

Press Statement of the 14th Feminist Night March - March 8, 2016, Istanbul Since March 8, 2015, we women have been defending our lives and rights at home, at work, at school and in the streets; we have strengthened our struggle against the family, male employers and the violence of the male state. On the one hand, war and conflict have increased in the region and Turkey; on the other, the government's words, admonitions and policies forcing women to be self-sacrificing and confined within family life have continued. A uniform life based on labor exploitation, violence, harassment, motherhood, heterosexuality, Muslimness and Turkishness is again imposed at work and at home. Unabated killings of women and the increasing hate-driven killings of trans people keep narrowing the space for women and trans people to live and be free. Against this, the determination and growing number of feminists who defend their lives against male violence and want peace have once again convinced us that our feminist struggle is on a path with no turning back. We stand for life; we say let the guns fall silent! Since last March 8, we feminists have said that against the continuing war in the country we stand for life; once again we call for the guns to fall silent urgently! We know that bombs exploding throughout the country and war bring only violence, death and destruction that cannot be repaired. Where displaying the bodies of murdered women is accepted as a victory and women's underwear is laid out in besieged homes, it is clear that war is strengthened by the mentality of male domination. We feminists stand for social peace! As women and trans people living in this country, we remind those responsible not to commit any more crimes and to act urgently for peace! We insist on feminist struggle for our labor, our identities and our bodies! Another consequence of war in Turkey and the region today is that all other political moves are made invisible. We feminists continue resisting the oppression of women's labor, identities and bodies in our everyday and political lives. We know your policies that aim to keep women out of sight, to keep violence from leaving homes, to imprison women, and to obscure equality between women and men through divorce commissions! In defiance of those forcing women to have children, we say that we will have children if we want to and will not if we do not! In defiance of those who do not see women's labor either at home or at work, and who close nurseries to imprison women who have children in their homes, we claim our labor! We resist practices leaving women without employment and social security! Whoever they may be, to those questioning when we go out onto the streets, what we wear and what we do, we say, “It's my life, what's it to you!” In short, we will keep resisting attempts to control our lives, our labor and our sexuality. We women continue to organize our lives through feminism! We claim our lives! Against the restriction of our spaces, against policies of male domination, against men who organize through war, hatred and violence, we claim our lives! We defend ourselves against the oppression we face at home, on the streets and at work, against the harassment and rape inflicted on us; we expose violence and strengthen women's solidarity. We know the road from a punch to murder; we give no quarter to male violence. We put pressure on the judiciary, security forces and other state bodies that fail to fulfill their duties against male violence, telling them not to watch this violence but to take action against it. Against the danger of death coming from men and the violence we have suffered for years, we defend our lives and exercise our legitimate right to self-defense. We refuse confinement to homes and oppressive families and build our lives. We go to school, oppose marriage forced on us at a young age or later, work and stand on our own feet. We live together as girls and boys, experience love woman to woman, laugh out loud, divorce, live single if we want to, do not have children if we do not want to, and abandon neither nights nor streets nor squares; against every obstacle we claim our lives! We are expanding our feminist struggle! Despite increasing oppression and violence in the country, despite the masculinity they seek to exalt, despite men who want to lay hands on our lives, we women and trans people strengthen our solidarity. At times like these we hold even more firmly to our feminist struggle. We fill public spaces and streets, defend our lives and freedom against the male-dominated system that wants to separate us, and come together around feminist struggle! Long live March 8! Long live our feminist struggle!

Press Statement of the 14th Feminist Night March - March 8, 2016, Istanbul Since March 8, 2015, we women have continued to defend our lives and rights at home, at work, at school and on the streets; we have strengthened our struggle and solidarity against the family, male bosses and the violence of the male state. While war and conflict intensified in the region and in Turkey, the government's rhetoric, admonitions and social policies forcing women to be “self-sacrificing,” that is, confined to “family” life; the exploitation of labor, violence and harassment at work and at home; the imposition of a uniform way of life through “motherhood, heterosexuality, Muslimness and Turkishness”; unabated femicides and hate killings targeting trans people continued to narrow the space for women and trans people to live and be free. On the other hand, the growing number and determination of feminists defending their lives and peace by resisting male violence convinced us once again that there is no turning back from our feminist struggle. We stand for life; we say let the guns fall silent! Against the increasing hatred and polarization in the war into which the country and the region have been dragged since last March 8, we feminists declare that we stand for life and once again stress the urgency of silencing the guns! We know that bombs exploding across Turkey and war bring only violence, death and destruction that is difficult to repair. Where displaying the bodies of murdered women is deemed a victory and women's underwear is put on display in besieged homes, it is very clear that war feeds on male domination and further strengthens it. We feminists stand for social peace! As women and trans people living in this country, we remind those responsible that they must act immediately for peace before committing any more crimes! We insist on feminist struggle for our labor, our identities and our bodies! Another consequence of the atmosphere of war in Turkey and the region today is that all other political moves are rendered invisible. Yet we feminists continue to resist the oppression of women's labor, identities and bodies in our everyday and political lives. We are aware of all your family policies that aim to imprison women in the family, undermine equality between women and men under the name of divorce commissions, and strive not to prevent male violence but to keep it inside homes, out of sight! In defiance of those forcing women to give birth, we say, “We give birth if we want to, and do not if we do not want to!” In defiance of those closing nurseries to condemn women who have given birth to their homes, and those rendering women's labor invisible both at home and at work, we claim our labor! We resist practices that leave women facing temporary work and a lack of social security! Whoever they may be, to those interfering with what time we go out, what we wear, what we do and what we experience with whom, we say, “It's my life, what's it to you!” In short, we continue to oppose every attempt to control our lives, our labor and our sexuality. We women continue to organize our lives through feminism! We claim our lives! Against the restriction of our spaces, ongoing male-dominated policies, and men who organize themselves through war, harassment, hatred and violence, we claim our lives! At home, in the workplace and on the streets, we defend ourselves against the oppression, harassment and rape we face, expose violence and expand women's solidarity. We know the road from a slap to murder and make no concessions to male violence. We force the judiciary, law enforcement and other state bodies that fail to fulfill their duties against male violence to act, to intervene instead of watching violence. In the face of the threat of death from men and the violence we have endured for years, we defend our lives and exercise our right to self-defense. We refuse confinement to homes and oppressive family structures and build our own lives. We go to school, oppose forced marriage at an early age or later, work and stand on our own feet. We live together as “girls and boys,” fall in love woman to woman, laugh out loud, divorce, live single if we want to, do not give birth if we do not want to, abandon neither the nights nor the streets nor the squares, and claim our lives despite every obstruction! We are expanding our feminist struggle! Despite the growing violence and repression in the country, the masculinity they seek to glorify, and men trying to seize our lives, we women and trans people expand our solidarity. At times like these we hold even more firmly to feminist struggle. We fill public spaces, squares and streets, defend our lives and freedom against the male-dominated system that seeks to separate us, and come together in feminist struggle!   Long live March 8! Long live our feminist struggle!

2016

Slogans

GENERAL Long live March 8, long live our feminist struggle! Long live March 8! Long live March 8! We abandon neither the nights nor the streets nor the squares! The world would shake if women were free! We want a world without bosses, pimps or shelters Leave the housework, let the world stop Woman, life, freedom Long live women's struggle Our labor, our bodies, our identities belong to us. We are not honor, not hymens, not property. We are feminists, we are feminists. In the streets, at home, in parliament, feminists are everywhere Women are resisting everywhere Women are in rebellion, in the streets, at the barricades We are not the family, we are women Let male violence end Abortion is a right, the decision is women's! Don't be silent, shout out: trans people exist Ayşe must be able to love Fatma, Emel to love Sibel / They must be able to love one another In the streets, at home, in parliament, lesbians are everywhere Women do not want war / Women do not want war, they want peace Long live the resistance of Kobanê. We insist, insist on peace. Murderer ISIS, collaborator AKP. A thousand greetings to the women resisting in Kobanê. Funds for shelters, not war! The streets are ours (chant leader) ---- did you think they were yours? (women) The nights are ours (chant leader) ---- did you think they were yours? (women) Our lives are ours (chant leader) ---- did you think they were yours? (women)   Men, go home to look after children Men, go home to cook Men, go home to iron INVISIBLE LABOR, RAISE YOUR VOICE   Raise your voice against male domination Raise your voice against sexism Raise your voice against transphobia Raise your voice against homophobia Raise your voice against militarism Raise your voice against capitalism Raise your voice against war Raise your voice against violence, Raise your voice against harassment, Raise your voice against rape RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST THE MASSACRE OF WOMEN   To militarism------- No To nationalism------- No To conservatism------- No To heterosexism------- No To capitalism------- No To patriarchy ------- No (3 times) LONG LIVE OUR ORGANIZED STRUGGLE   FAMILY We are women, not the family; we are in feminist rebellion We are women, not the family; we are in rebellion, not mourning Motherhood is not a career, the family is not our destiny Prince on a white horse, don't bother coming!   Our lives……ours (women) Your family ……….yours (women) KEEP IT   MALE VIOLENCE Don't watch violence, intervene! Not monstrosity, but male violence! Men, judiciary, media: do not form an alliance. End the collaboration of men, the judiciary and the AKP. Unjust provocation protects men Real justice, not male justice! When I say “no,” it means no; in harassment cases, the woman's testimony is the basis Femicides are political Murders of trans people are political Let hate killings end Shout so everyone hears, let male violence end Not coincidence, but male violence Not isolated incidents, but male violence Massacre everywhere, the killers are in our homes Prevent murder, not divorce! We are not silent, we are not afraid, we do not obey   In marriage (chant leader) ---- there is murder (women) Massacre everywhere, the killers are in our homes Men hit, the state protects. Özgecan's killer is male state violence Men's love (chant leader)---- kills women (women) We don't want love that kills (women) From scolding to slapping, (chant leader) ---- don't give another chance! (women) From slapping to murder (chant leader) ---- don't give another chance! (women)   Pippa Bacca ------------------ here Serra Sierra ------------------ here Jesca Nankabirwa ------------------ here NOT COINCIDENCE, BUT MALE VIOLENCE   Sevim Zarif ------------------ here Ayşe Yılbaş ------------------ here Güldünya Tören ------------------ here Ayşe Paşalı ------------------ here Sevim Başar ------------------------ here Meryem Yılmaz ------------------ here Hanime Aslan………………. Pınar İkiz………………………. Özgecan Aslan…………….. NOT ISOLATED INCIDENTS, BUT MALE VIOLENCE   Ignorance ….no Illness…..no Monstrosity ……no Perversion…..no Innate nature ……..certainly not PLAIN AND SIMPLE MALE VIOLENCE   AKP We will surely tear down the homophobic state Funds for shelters, not shopping malls End harassment and rape in custody State, take your hands off my body! AKP, take your hands off my life Tayyip, run run run, women are coming (slow at first, then faster) Enemy of feminists, Tayyip Erdoğan We do not obey men, patriarchy, the AKP….!!   WHAT'S IT TO YOU: I come home whenever I want (chant leader) ---- WHAT'S IT TO YOU (women) I wear a miniskirt I live with girls and boys I live with other women I get pregnant and do not give birth I get pregnant and have an abortion I don't marry, I get pregnant I cover my head or uncover it I do housework if I want to, or don't I don't have sex if I don't feel like it Yes, I am unchaste Yes, I am a feminist => WHAT'S IT TO YOU?

2016

Calendar

LEAFLETING AND A SLOGAN WORKSHOP FOR MARCH 8! LET US FIND THE SLOGANS FOR OUR FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH TOGETHER! Dear Women and Trans People, This year, too, we feminists have begun preparations for March 8. On Sunday, February 28, at 15.00, we will meet in front of Kadıköy's Süreyya Opera House and distribute leaflets, then meet at Sodid at 17.00 to hold a slogan and placard workshop. Let us meet in Kadıköy on Sunday to organize our rebellion and solidarity together. 15.00 Leafleting in front of Süreyya Opera House 17.00 Slogan and placard workshop at Sodid Sodid address: Osmanağa Mahallesi, Kırtasiyeci Sokak, No:15, Floor:2

Let us meet for slogan-painting tonight and at the feminist stall on Saturday! Dear Women and Trans People, Our preparations for March 8 continue. You can find the calendar for leafleting, the slogan workshop, slogan-painting, the night march and our other events attached.. ON FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 4, WE GO OUT TO PAINT SLOGANS IN THE STREETS OF TAKSIM TO CALL FOR THE FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH! Meeting time & place: 21.00 - SFK Venue ON SATURDAY, MARCH 5, WE MEET AT OUR FEMINIST STALL! Last Sunday we set up our stall in Kadıköy. We distributed our leaflets. On Saturday, March 5, at 16.30, we will meet in Taksim at İstiklal Caddesi/ the entrance to Mis Sokak and continue distributing leaflets. Let us keep raising feminism's voice together: meet on Mis Sokak on Saturday at 16.30! Feminists

2016

Party

As every year, this year too we will enjoy ourselves together after the Feminist Night March! We meet at The Mekan! As we have for years, we will hold our evening gathering this year too. Since last year, so much has happened that has hurt us deeply, and continues to happen. But we have not stood by and watched, and we are not doing so now. After the night march, we want to hold our traditional feminist evening gathering as well. With Ritimkolektif performing, we think expressing our friendship and solidarity through music and dance will do us all good. Come, let us strengthen our hope and our togetherness in defiance of war and patriarchy...

2016

Declaration

Let us expand our resistance together on March 8! A call to women and trans people; Since last March 8, men's violence and oppression have not been absent from the lives of women and trans people! But in response, our struggle spreads further every day and our rebellion grows! The violent environment we live in has shown once again how vital it is for us to insist on peace and to live where the guns are silent. Today's war multiplies violence and hatred against women and trans people and sharpens discriminatory policies, while its consequences for us are rendered invisible and no precautions are taken. The AKP government continues its words and practices legitimizing male violence. Policies to strengthen the family and increase the population, and divorce commissions, are built on imposing motherhood and flexible, insecure work on women. Male violence and attacks on women do not slow down. Against all this, we women continue to claim our lives despite everything. Even in an atmosphere of increasing repression, we feminists continue our everyday and political struggle. We say that we stand for life, expose harassers and rapists, refuse to be imprisoned at home, believe in free love, live together as “girls and boys,” fall in love woman to woman, laugh out loud, divorce, do not give birth if we do not want to, abandon neither nights nor streets, and claim our lives in different ways despite every obstruction! As women and trans people, we struggle in every area of our lives against male violence and the state that supports it. We fill the streets with the names of women who claim their lives. That women subjected to a lifetime of male violence are forced to kill their husbands to stay alive has shown us that there is no way to live except through resistance. We women grow stronger through our resistance, adding our voices to one another's! Against patriarchy, heterosexism and every manifestation of male violence, we grow stronger through women's solidarity at home, at work and on the streets. We will be liberated through women's solidarity and our feminist struggle! On March 8, we will not abandon the streets and public spaces!

2016

Hacklenme

Our accounts are back under our control... At around 11.00 this morning, along with the Istanbul Feminist Collective page, the Facebook pages “Women's Initiative for Peace, Urgent Action Against Femicides, Abortion Is a Right, the Decision Is Women's, We Stand for Life, Not Death” were also hacked. The women administering the groups were removed and new administrators appointed. The hackers closed the event for the 14th Feminist Night March to be held on March 8 on the Istanbul Feminist Collective page, announced it had been postponed and opened a new event. They called on women to come to Fatih on Friday, March 10. By creating confusion, they sought to prevent participation in the event that, as always, would take place in Taksim (starting in front of the French Cultural Center) on Tuesday, March 8, at 19.00. The Istanbul Feminist Collective page's followers, the feminist night march's organizers, the women who would join the night march... who received this notification around 21.30 practically turned the world upside down. On the one hand they tried to announce far and wide that the March 8 Night March had not been canceled and opened a new event page. On the other, they reached Facebook administrators through three to five different channels. After a period of 4 hours, all the pages were recovered. Long live our Feminist Struggle! We meet at the Feminist Night March in Taksim on March 8 at 19.00. Istanbul Feminist Collective

!URGENT URGENT! THE FEMINIST NIGHT MARCH EVENT HAS BEEN HACKED! The real event is still in Taksim on March 8; help us share it!   The Istanbul Feminist Collective's Facebook page was hacked TODAY. Toward evening, the hacker closed the event for the 14th Feminist Night March to be held on March 8 and opened a new event. The new event appears to be in Fatih on Friday, March 10. This is not real! The Feminist Night March will take place in Taksim as always, on Tuesday, March 8! Our march will start in front of the French Cultural Center on March 8 at 19:00! There is no problem with this... Because the account was hacked, we opened a new event link through a personal account: https://www.facebook.com/events/523398197843227/ Please report this fake event to Facebook, flag it as spam, and share and spread the real event... Our image is also attached.   Istanbul Feminist Collective

2016

Press Coverage

21 articles

Feminist Night March in Taksim on March 8

7 March 2016 bianet.org

14th Feminist Night March: We Are Growing Our Struggle

8 March 2016 Haluk Kalafat bianet.org

A Call to the March 8 Feminist Night March: We Will Not Abandon the Squares or the Nights

8 March 2016 T24 bianet.org

Women Will Take to the Streets for the 14th Night March

8 March 2016 bianet.org

Women on Streets 14th Time for Night March

8 March 2016 bianet.org

Podcast

First-hand Accounts of the Istanbul Feminist Night March: Selime Büyükgöze, Cemre Baytok

In this episode of Çatlak Zemin's archive project tracing the history of the Feminist Night March in Istanbul, Selime Büyükgöze and Cemre Baytok discuss how the marches have been organised since 2010, the growth in participation following Gezi, the diversity of the organising committee, the work involved in organising the march, the importance of maintaining its independent feminist politics, and the feminist messages that have come to the fore over the years.

Görüşme süresi:
44:06
Anlatıcı:
Selime Büyükgöze, Cemre Baytok
Zaman kapsamı:
2010–2023
Anahtar kelimeler:
Gezi, organizasyon komitesi, iş bölümü, bağımsız feminist örgütlenme, feminist söz

2015 Feminist Gece Yürüyüşü Previous year 2015 2015 Feminist Night March 2017 Feminist Gece Yürüyüşü Next year 2017 2017 Feminist Night March
2016 · Çatlak Zemin

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Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi (AİHM), yıllar boyunca şiddet ve korkuyla yaşamak zorunda kalan kadının şikayetini haklı bularak Türkiye’nin kadını korumaya yönelik yeterli önlemleri almadığına hükmetti. AİHM kararında Türkiye yargısının yavaş…

9 Nisan 2016: İspanya’da kadınlar sokakta: “Şiddetinize karşılık vereceğiz / Feministok Prest”

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“Şiddetinize karşılık vereceğiz” sloganı altında 9 Nisan’da düzenlenen yürüyüşe on binlerce kadın katıldı. Feministok Prest adı altında örgütlenen bu eyleme 250’den fazla örgüt destek verdi. Feministok Prest, 2016 Şubat ayında…

24 Nisan 2016: Meksika’da “Maço Şiddeti”ne karşı ulusal seferberlik: Bir kişi daha eksilmeyeceğiz.

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Meksika’da “Maço Şiddeti”ne karşı ulusal seferberlik ilan eden kadınlar #BirKişiDahaEksilmeyeceğiz (#NiUnaMenos) hashtag’ını kullanarak 42 şehirde birden sokağa çıktılar. Meksika’da 2016 Mart ayında feminist gruplar, gazeteci kadınlar ve kadın akademisyenler tarafından…

3 Mayıs 2016: Hindistan’da cinsel şiddet ve cinayeti protesto eden kadınlara polis saldırdı

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Hindistan’ın Güney Kerala eyaletinde bir kadının vahşice öldürülmesini protesto etmek üzere toplanan kadınları polis cop kullanarak dağıttı. Annesiyle yaşadığı evde katledilen 30 yaşındaki kadının bedeninde birden fazla bıçak yarası tespit…

7 Mayıs 2016: Dünya kadın motosiklet sürücüleri günü 10. kez kutlandı

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Her yıl Mayıs ayının ilk Cumartesi günü, Kadın Motosiklet Sürücüleri Günü olarak dünyada ve birkaç yıldır da Türkiye’de kutlanıyor. Amaç, yollarda kadın motosiklet sürücülerinin varlığını hatırlatmak, kadınları motosiklet kullanmaya teşvik…

24 Mayıs 2016: Göçmen kadın cinayeti / Jesca Nankabirwa davası sonuçlandı

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Yaklaşık bir yıldır Türkiye’de yaşayan Ugandalı göçmen Jesca Nankabirwa, Sultangazi’de bir tekstil fabrikasında çalışıyordu. Jesca, 6 Eylül 2014 Cumartesi günü kaybolduktan dört gün sonra arkadaşlarının çabaları ile Yenibosna hastanesinin morgunda…

8 Temmuz 2016: Peru’da kadınlara tecavüz eden askerler yargı önünde

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1980’lerde Aydınlık Yol gerillaları ile Peru ordusu arasında çatışmalar sürerken tecavüzler yaşandı. Otuz yıl sonra kadınların şikayeti üzerine on dört subayın bu suçtan yargılanmasına başlandı. İnsan hakları savunucuları, özellikle yerli kadınlara karşı tecavüz ve…

25 Temmuz 2016: Arjantinli kadınlar kamusal alanda emzirme yasağını protesto etti

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Kamusal alanda dokuz aylık bebeğini emzirmek isteyen bir annenin karşılaştığı polis müdahalesi, Arjantinli kadınlar tarafından protesto edildi. 22 yaşındaki Constancia Santos, San Isidro Bankası’nı ziyareti sırasında aç olan bebeğini emzirirken…

27 Temmuz 2016: Kadınlardan oluşan ilk takım Atlantik’i kürekle 48 günde geçti

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Tamamı kadınlardan oluşan ilk kürek takımı Atlantik okyanusunu geçmeyi başardı. 7 Haziran’da NewYork’tan kürek çekmeye başlayan kadınlar, 27 Temmuz 2016’da İngiltere kıyılarına vardı. 48 gün, 13 saat, 49 dakika ve…

11 Ağustos 2016: Abisi tarafından işkenceyle öldürülen Amine Demirtaş için eylem

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Batman’da ağabeyi tarafından darp edildikten sonra elektrik verilerek katledilen 17 yaşındaki Amine Demirtaş için eylemler devam etti. Yılmaz Güney Sahnesi önünde bir araya gelen kadınlar burada bir basın açıklaması yaptılar. 31…

18 Ağustos 2016: Hande Kader yakılarak öldürüldü

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İstanbul’da yaşayan trans kadın aktivist Hande Kader’den yaklaşık bir hafta haber alınamadı. Arkadaşları ve sevgilisi kayıp ilanı verdi. Hande Kader’in yakılmış cesedi Zekeriyaköy’de bulundu. Hande Kader’in öldürülmesi 18 Ağustos 2016’da…

3 Eylül 2016: Kadınlar barış için Kadıköy’de eylem yaptı

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1 Eylül Barış Haftası vesilesiyle kadınlar Kadıköy Süreyya Operası önünde toplanarak savaşa karşı kadınların barış taleplerini yinelediler. Basın açıklaması sonrasında Kadıköy rıhtıma yürümek isteyen kadınların yürüyüşüne OHAL nedeniyle izin verilmedi.…

3 Ekim 2016: Polonya’da kürtaj yasaklarına karşı genel grev – Kara Pazartesi

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Polonya’da, iktidardaki sağ parti PİS (Hukuk ve Adalet), ülke nüfusunun azaldığı gerekçesiyle, kürtaja yasak getiren yasada yer alan kimi hallerde kürtaja izin veren hükümleri ortadan kaldıran, yani kürtajı tamamen yasaklayan…

19 Ekim 2016: Arjantinli kadınlar grevde! #NiUnaMenos/#BirKadınDahaEksilmeyeceğiz

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Her 21 saatte bir kadının öldürüldüğü, her 36 saatte bir kadının aile içi şiddete kurban gittiği Arjantin’de, 16 yaşındaki kız çocuğu Lucia Perez’in tecavüz edilerek öldürülmesinin ardından, Arjantinli kadınlar 19…

25 Aralık 2016: Feminist çizer Núria Pompeia hayatını kaybetti

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Feminist karikatür sanatının İspanya’daki öncülerinden, Katalan çizer ve mizah yazarı Núria Pompeia 85 yaşında hayata veda etti. 1931’de Barselona’da dünyaya gelen sanatçının ilk çizimleri, 1969’dan itibaren çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde…

1 Nisan 2016: Kadın Koalisyonu, Zor Zamanda Kadın Olmak araştırmasına başladı

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“Çözüm Süreci”nin sona ermesiyle yeniden başlayan ve daha önce görülmemiş boyutlara ulaşan şiddet ortamında kadınların gündelik hayatlarının nasıl etkilendiğini anlamak için başladığımız araştırma, darbe girişimi ve olağanüstü hal ilanından sonra…