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• YPJ fighter Nûcan Cuma martyred in Serêkaniyê 

  YPJ announced the martyrdom of Nûcan Cuma in the resistance against the Turkish invasion of Serêkaniyê.
• Women will stand up against violence on 14 February 

  One billion women worldwide have been raped or harassed. Women refuse to assume passively this violence. The One Billion Rising campaign called on women to get on their feet and protest on February 14.
• TJK-E calls on women to join march in Strasbourg on 15 February 

  TJK-E condemned the 15 February conspiracy against Kurdish people's leader Öcalan and urged people, especially women, to join the march in Strasbourg on 15 February.
• Women's centres in the Washokani camp support female refugees 

  In the Washokani camp for displaced persons from the Turkish occupation zone in northern Syria, two women's centres have been set up. They offer female refugees a space to maintain their self-organisation and revolution.
• How state repression promotes violence against women 

  Every day in Turkey, women are murdered by men from their personal environment. The TJA fights against violence against women. Due to state repression, victims of violence shy away from contacting the women's movement.
• KJK calls on women to practice self-defense and organise 

  All women should definitely oppose laws such as child marriage, or forced marriage imposed on girls, KJK said.
• Ertaş: The State fears women's organization 

  Cansu Ertaş from the Women's Platform in Ankara talks about the state's fear of women's organisation and sharply criticises the misogynist policies of the Erdoğan regime.
• Van airport executive promoted despite sexual harassment charge 

  Yaşar Saydut was detained with allegations of harassment and sexual assault when he was airport executive in Hakkari and now has been appointed to Van DHMI Directorate.
• Taşdemir: Special policies against women implemented in Kurdistan 

  Taşdemir spoke to ANF about the issue of violence against women and the women's policies of the fascist AKP-MHP alliance.
• Report says at least 27 women murdered by men in January 

  The ‘We Will Stop Femicide Platform’ said that at least 27 women were murdered by men in January.
• Women in Athens condemn murder of Evin Ekrem 

  Hundreds of women in Athens condemned the murder of Kurdish woman refugee Evin Ekrem Ali.
• Decline in suicidal tendencies among women in Kobanê 

  In Kobanê, significantly fewer women attempted suicide in 2019 than in previous years. The prevention efforts of the Kurdish women's umbrella organisation Kongreya Star are clearly having an effect.
• Ayşe Gökkan elected new spokeswoman of the TJA 

  Kurdish activist Ayşe Gökkan has been elected the new spokeswoman of the women's movement TJA. At the two-day conference in Amed, the expansion of the women's struggle was discussed.
• TJK-E condemns murder of Kurdish woman in Lavrio 

  TJK-E strongly condemned the murder of a Kurdish woman from Rojava in the city of Lavrio. The woman was killed in front of her children by her husband.
• PAJK commemorates Viyan Soran 

  Fourteen years ago guerrilla fighter Viyan Soran burned herself to death in protest against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. The Kurdish women's party PAJK commemorates her with an obituary.
• Event on the role of women in North and East Syria 

  On the initiative of the group "Schwerin for Rojava", Hamburg ethnologist Anja Flach spoke in Schwerin on "democratic confederalism" in Rojava and its struggle for survival against the Turkish jihadist invasion.
• Conference in Amed: No free society without women's freedom 

  "We are women, we exist for our freedom and we fight for change" is the motto of a two-day conference of the women's movement TJA in Amed. Without women's freedom there can be no free society, it was said in the opening speech.
• Memorial for Sara, Rojbin and Ronahi in Berlin 

  A memorial event was held in Berlin for the three Kurdish politicians murdered in Paris in 2013.
• TJA activist Leyla Aşkan taken into custody in Tatvan 

  Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA) activist Leyla Aşkan was detained at the entrance to Tatvan.
• March in Lavrio against murder of women 

  A march against women murders was held in Lavrio, where a Kurdish refugee woman from Rojava, Evin Ekrem Ali, was brutally killed by her husband.
• Kurdish refugee murdered by husband commemorated in Lavrio 

  Evin Ekrem Ali, a Kurdish refugee woman from Rojava, who was murdered by her husband in Lavrio, was commemorated by hundreds of people.
• Woman killed by husband in police station housing refugees 

  Evin Ekrem Ali, from Qamishlo, came to Greece with her family about 2 years ago. She had 4 children. 
• Sexual violence perpetrated by occupation forces in Serêkaniyê 

  Thirty cases of sexual violence against women by the occupation forces in Serêkaniyê have been documented. The number of unreported cases is said to be much higher.
• Village guard murders his wife in Bingöl 

  Fatma Tümen was murdered in the Northern Kurdistan province of Bingöl by the man she was married to. Ahmet Tümen worked as a paramilitary village guard for the Turkish state.
• Assyrian women against the occupation – A report from Til Temir 

  The northern Syrian district of Til Temir is the target of the invasion troops. It is an outstanding example of the peaceful coexistence of all ethnic and religious identities in the region.