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• TJK-E calls for solidarity 

  TJK-E condemns the repression against the Kurdish women's movement in Turkey and calls for solidarity.
• "Femicide rate in Turkey resembles a war record" 

  With a purple human chain and pictures of murdered women on trees, the initiative "Women's Liberation" in Istanbul has drawn attention to the massive increase in patriarchal violence and called on the government to implement the Istanbul Convention.
• Women's organizations: We will never step back! 

  Numerous women's organisations show solidarity with the activists arrested in Amed and say: "The struggle of the arrested women is also our struggle. We will never bow down and step back."
• Rosa Association activist Gültekin released from custody 

  Activist Fatma Gültekin, arrested in May in Amed in the course of the investigation against Rosa women's association, has been released from prison. The trial against her, in which she faces up to 15 years imprisonment, is still pending.
• Pervin Buldan: Hands off women! 

  The final rally of the HDP campaign "Women's struggle is everywhere" took place in Istanbul. HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan condemned the Turkish government's misogynist policies and called for a joint struggle.
• Mother and 6-year-old murdered in Tekirdağ 

  Hatice Turan and her daughter Esila Turan have been killed by a man in Tekirdağ.
• Woman murdered in İzmir 

  Women continue to be the victim of femicide in Turkey.
• Australian Greens MP: I stand with the Kurdish people 

  Tammy Franks’ statement of support for Open Letter from Women.
• Women will continue to speak out! 

  Violence and repression against women in Kurdistan and Turkey continues to increase. Rosa Women's Association, which carries out women's studies in North Kurdistan, is also an institution that is subject to these pressures.
• European Women's Platform marches in Vienna 

  A rally and march were held in Vienna, organised by the European Women's Platform and the Anti-Fascist Women's Movement.
• Kurdish women take to the streets in Stuttgart, Bonn and Paris 

  Activists protested the attacks of the invading Turkish state in the cities of Stuttgart, Bonn and Paris.
• Women Webinar: Coronavirus as Litmus Test of Capitalist Modernity 

  New webinar organised by Women Weaving Future will discuss the coronavirus pandemic and how it has exposed the state and capitalism as inherently anti-society.
• Demo in protest at violence against women in Duisburg 

  Kurdish women took to the streets in Germany to protest violence against women.
• TEKO-JIN, for struggling young women 

  Young women living in Europe announced in a meeting the launch of the Jinên Ciwanên Tekoşer (Struggling Young Women) Movement.
• Çetin's lawyers: "We'll closely monitor our client's case" 

  Sevil Rojbin Çetin was arrested following a raid on her house in Amed on 26 June as part of an investigation launched by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Mardin.
• Signature campaign for justice for Hevrin Khalaf 

  "The Security Council must take action and put an end to Turkish expansion within the Syrian territories and investigate the assassination of the politician Hevrin Khalaf by a special committee and forward her file to the International Criminal Court."
• Women’s seminar held in Qamishlo 

  “Women must be free for the building of a free and honorable society," said one of the speakers.
• Elif Bulut talks about the 4th week of the HDP Women Campaign 

  The HDP will draw attention to women's suicides and suspicious deaths in 5 cities as part of the “Women are Everywhere” campaign.
• Sakine Cansiz Women Festival asks for activists to send messages 

  The organisers have launched an appeal to activists and people who met Sakine Cansiz.
• 27 women murdered in Turkey in June 

  KCDP said that 27 women have been murdered in Turkey in the month of June.
• Women in Raqqa promote action tent against Turkish attacks 

  The speakers paid tribute to the three women murdered in Kobanê and underlined that a free life was possible by resisting.
• Başaran: We will raise women's voice with marches in 5 cities 

  In the 18-year period government of the AKP, some 7,500 women have been killed, according to official figures.
• Joint statement condemns Turkey’s crimes in Rojava 

  Dozens of organisations and individuals condemn the brutal killing of Zehra Berkel, Emîna Weys and Bedîea Mele Xelîl by the Turkish army in Kobanê.
• Activists in Duisburg protest violence against women 

  Kurdish women gathered in Duisburg to protest violence against women.
• Turkish occupation in Afrin guilty of femicide and gender crimes 

  A new dossier published by Kongra Star documents violence against women in Afrin, proceeding from Turkey and the jihadist groups supported by Turkish state.