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• Academic Gulmen taken into custody 

  Nuriye Gulmen is one of the tens of thousands of workers dismissed after the 15 July coup
• Demonstration in Brussels for Kurdish woman activist 

  Gülizar Taşdemir was extradited to Turkey despite the risks of repression.
• Zilan Kurdish Women’s Festival kicks off in London 

  The Festival is dedicated to YPJ internationalist fighter Anna Campbell.
• Rozerin Kalkan sentenced to 10 years in jail after being tortured 

  Rozerin Kalkan has been sentenced to prison for over ten years for membership to a terrorist organization. In police custody, she was tortured sexually and physically.
• Kongreya Star holds preparatory Congress meetings in Aleppo 

  Women gathered in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood and elected the presidents of 6 communes.
• Women step up protests against child abuse 

  Istanbul Women Assembly organised an action claiming rights for children
• HDP Women’s Council says Ministry for Children's Rights needed 

  The HDP Women’s Council said the AKP government has fomented a reactionary mentality justifying abuse.
• 39 women murdered in Turkey in June 

  The Platform We Will Stop Women Killings released its June report.
• TJA activist Ormanci: Women are much more than mothers 

  Mekiye Ormanci tells of the women’s struggle needed to defeat the male mentality.
• Manbij women set up projects for economic independence 

  Manbij women who innovate in their day-to-day work strengthen their economic autonomy.
• Iran: Women protest dancing against headscarf imposition 

  In Iran, women have been protesting for some time against state repression by taking off their headscarves and dancing in public.
• Women’s bakery opens in a village of Qamishlo 

  Women in Tirbespiyê are opening a bakery to provide bread for the surrounding villages with the support of Women’s Economy Center.
• Women's arts and crafts exhibited in Qamishlo 

  The Kevana Zêrin Movement organised the exhibition getting together women from all Northern Syria.
• TJK-E: We stand against isolation and the massacre of women 

  The European Kurdish Women's Movement TJK-E published the final declaration of its congress.
• Female prisoners in Mardin protesting oppression 

  Prisoners in Mardin Type E Prison have been refusing to go to lawyer visits for the last five months because their visits are being recorded.
• Women in Rojava celebrate opening of JIN TV 

  After several months of testing, the new women's channel JIN TV went on the air. The opening was celebrated in Qamishlo and Shehba in northern Syria.
• Jineology Committee in Kobanê runs new training session 

  Dedicated to young women, the training session will last 8 days.
• JIN TV on air 

  Today, the women's channel JIN TV went on air.
• KJK: Women will play an important role in Parliament 

  The KJK said AKP fascism is still strong but it has lost pieces.
• Jin TV ready to go on air 

  Jin (Women) TV channel will begin broadcasting on Saturday 30 June.
• Kurdish Women’s Festival in UK dedicated to YPJ martyr Campbell 

  The Festival will take place in London on 6 and 7 July.
• Another Yazidi woman murdered in Afrin 

  Fatma Hamke was 66 years old.
• Young Women’s Union established in Raqqa for the first time 

  The slogan of the meeting was: "We will destroy the slavery mentality with the struggle of the women".
• Women prisoners harassed in prison 

  Women prisoners subjected to ill treatment and harassment in prison.
• 72 year old Dinler: They are the true terrorists! 

  72 year old Fatma Dinler said when she was taken to the police station, the officers who brought her in told the others, “Look, we got a terrorist for you.” Dinler, who has heart and blood pressure issues and diabetes, was held without food or water.