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• 8th Women's Literature and Art Festival continues today 

  The 8th Women's Literature and Art Festival kicked off in Qamishlo. Today is the last day of the event.
• TJA Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan and six prisoners deported from Diyarbakır jail 

  Seven women prisoners, including TJA Term Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan, were deported from Diyarbakır Women's Closed Prison.
• 8th Women's Art and Culture Festival kicks off today in Qamishlo 

  The 8th Women's Art and Culture Festival, which will be organized this year with the slogan ‘We will knit the Art Revolution with Jin Jiyan Azadî Culture’, will be held in Qamishlo today and tomorrow.
• TJA and HDP Women's Assembly will go to earthquake regions on 8 March 

  TJA and HDP Women's Assembly will meet women in the 10 cities affected by the earthquake in Maraş as part of the March 8 events this year.
• HDP Women's Council: Activities for 8 March International Women's Day will reach earthquake regions 

  The HDP Women's Council started the program of activities related to 8 March International Women's Day with an action in Istanbul and announced that they will carry out their activities in the earthquake region where children and women suffer the most.
• International Feminist Meeting in Madrid 

  The International Feminist Meeting “We call it Feminism” was held in Madrid with the aim of generating a space for reflection and dialogue around feminism.
• Feminist Solidarity Network for Disaster sets up Purple Tents for women affected by earthquake 

  The solidarity of women is growing in the purple tents established together with political parties and social society organizations, launched by the Feminist Solidarity Network for Disaster.
• TAJÊ: KDP targets Yazidi women and their faith 

  The Yazidi Women's Freedom Movement said that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) sought to annihilate the Yazidi belief by targeting Yazidi women.
• 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' resistance in Rojhilat Kurdistan and Iran continues 

  The 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' resistance, which started in Rojhilat Kurdistan and Iran, has been going on for five months.
• YPJ Information publishes video about meaning of Öcalan for women's struggle 

  Three members of the YPJ and HPC-Jin evaluated the meaning of Abdullah Öcalan and the international conspiracy against him for the women's struggle.
• Kurdish teacher Zara Mohammadi has been freed 

  Kurdish teacher Zara Mohammadi, who was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for teaching Kurdish children their mother tongue, has been released from jail.
• YPJ fighter wounded in Turkish attack dies 

  YPJ fighter Nûpel Têkoşer Dêrik, who was seriously wounded in a Turkish attack on Ain Issa in January, has succumbed to her injuries.
• Martigues activists talk about Jineoloji 

  A panel was held in Martigues to explain the concept, method, historical development and ideological dimensions of Jineoloji.
• Men killed at least 31 women in January 

  According to the news compiled by bianet from local and national newspapers, news websites and news agencies, men killed at least 31 women and four children in January.
• Police take three women into custody in Van 

  Three women were detained in a political genocide operation in Van province.
• International women's delegation visits Council of Europe 

  An International women's delegation organized by the Kurdistan Free Women's Movement visits the Council of Europe.
• Women prisoners in Iran raise concern over executions and torture 

  Women prisoners in the Evin Prison stated that “We, female political prisoners, are in a prison where some of our fellow inmates face death penalties and receive death threats.”
• HDP Adana MP Hatimoğulları calls for serious investigation into femicides 

  HDP deputy Tülay Hatimoğulları said that at least 334 women were murdered in 2022 and 225 women died under suspicious circumstances. She called for these deaths to be investigated.
• A young leading commander: Bêrîtan 

  Bêrîtan Koçer, who joined the guerrilla troops at a young age against the genocidal attacks of the Turkish state in Kurdistan, took part in numerous actions as a female commander and inflicted heavy blows on the invading enemy.
• Activists rally in Cologne to support ongoing protests in Iran and Rojhilat  

  A march and rally were held in Cologne to support the ongoing protests in Iran and Rojhilat after the murder of Kurdish woman Jîna Amini by the "morality police" in Iran.
• Interview with Ilham Ehmed about feminization of politics 

  Recently, there has been much talk about the idea of “feminist politics”. Ministers and politicians speak about a “feminization of politics”. But what do these expressions mean? What distinguishes feminist politics?
• Call for participation in the Cologne demo in solidarity with the women-led uprising in Rojhilat 

  The Kurdish women's Movement in Germany calls for participation in the demonstration to be staged in Cologne on Saturday in support of the revolutionary uprising led by women in Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan).
• TJA calls for action against executions in Iran 

  The Free Women's Movement called on everyone to raise a voice against the executions of protestors in Iran, saluting the mass anti-government demonstrations.
• The growing struggle of women in Rojava – VI 

  52 women's organizations have been getting organised more efficiently under the umbrella of the Women's Assembly of North-East Syria.
• Two more female journalists arrested in Iran 

  Female journalists Mehrnoosh Zarei Hanzaki and Saeedeh Shafiee have been arrested in Iran. Since the beginning of the women-led uprising in the country, at least 79 media workers have been imprisoned.