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• Women expanding the resistance against patriarchal mentality are targeted by hegemonic forces 

  Kurdish activist Rihan Loqo defined the silence in the face of crimes and right violations against women as a complicity in crimes and urged all women in the world to enhance the struggle.
• Stories of female prisoners to be published 

  NGOs and language organisations in Amed decided to publish the stories written by female prisoners.
• Jineology Academy publishes the book "Historical foundations and future of the women's revolution" 

  North and East Syria Jineology Academy introduced the book "Historical foundations and future of the women's revolution".
• Deposed mayor of Dersim sentenced to ten years in prison 

  In the reopened case against Nurhayat Altun, the deposed mayor of Dersim has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for membership of a terrorist organisation. An appeal against her imprisonment is pending before the ECtHR.
• 68 women's organisations call for the release of Aysel Tuğluk 

  68 women's rights organizations released a joint statement about the deteriorating health condition of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) former MP Aysel Tuğluk, who is in Kocaeli Prison.
• Kongreya Star delegation visits South Kurdistan 

  A delegation of the Northeast Syrian women's association Kongreya Star visited women's organisations in South Kurdistan.
• Peace Mothers march in Mardin against isolation and deaths in Turkish prisons 

  Peace mothers marched in the province of Mardin against the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and increasing deaths in Turkey’s prisons.
• Rewşen Mardin: Those responsible for Gezer’s death will be held accountable 

  Those responsible for the death of Garibe Gezer in a Turkish prison will be held accountable, says Rewşen Mardin of the KJK.
• Kurdish women in France demonstrate for sick prisoners in Turkey 

  In view of the dramatic situation for sick political prisoners in Turkey, the Kurdish Women's Movement in France (TJK-F) has appealed to the public and politicians for more commitment.
• PAJK: We promise to take revenge for comrades who died in prison 

  The PAJK Coordination said in a statement on the prisoners who died in jail, "We are giving our pledge to our people and our comrades in prison to take their revenge by raising our revolutionary people's war against the enemy."
• HDP: Kurdish political prisoner Gezer died in prison after publicising her severe torture 

  The HDP Women's Assembly said that Kurdish political prisoner Gezer died in prison after publicising her severe torture.
• Men kill two women in Urfa and Şırnak 

  Two women were murdered in Haliliye, Urfa and Bahçelievler in Şırnak.
• Aysel Tuğluk: Memory and Resistance 

  The imprisoned politician Aysel Tuğluk is one of the Kurdish women who resist state oppression and the norms and gender roles imposed on them by the patriarchal system in all areas of life.
• Kongra Star: There is torture and rape in Turkish state prisons 

  The Kongra Star Rojava Coordination called attention to the death of Garibe Gezer and underlined the presence of torture and rape in Turkish state’s prisons.
• HDP women call for an end to Turkey's enemy criminal law 

  The female HDP deputies spoke out at a press conference in Ankara on the unexplained death of Garibe Gezer in prison and the state of health of imprisoned Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk.
• Women take to the streets for Garibe Gezer and Aysel Tuğluk 

  After the death of Kurdish political prisoner Garibe Gezer in a maximum security prison in Turkey, hundreds of angry activists from the Istanbul platform “Women are strong together” took to the streets on Friday evening.
• TJK-E calls for broad participation in protests for Öcalan on 11 December 

  The Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe calls for broad participation in the demonstration to be held on December 11 for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• HDP calls for the immediate release of Aysel Tuğluk whose condition deteriorates 

  The HDP Women's Council demands the immediate release of the Kurdish politician and lawyer Aysel Tuğluk, who has been imprisoned for five years and whose health condition is increasingly deteriorating.
• Alliance of Women comes to life in Kurdistan Region  

  In Hewler, a large number of women’s organisations and many women activists announced the formation of the Alliance of Women in the Kurdistan Region.
• Online women panel demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan on World Human Rights Week 

  Women discuss and demand Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan on the occasion of World Human Rights Week.
• Kurdish women in Russia call for action against isolation of Öcalan 

  Calling for action against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish women in Russia demanded freedom for the Kurdish leader.
• Statue of Cîlan Berces erected in Shengal 

  A monument of Cîlan Berces has been erected in Shengal. Like thousands of other women, the young Yazidi woman was abducted by ISIS in 2014. When she was to be handed over to an ISIS emir, she took her own life. She would rather die than be enslaved.
• Over 50 female prisoners given disciplinary sentences for singing Kurdish song 

  In Sincan women's prison, former HDP MP Ayla Akat Ata and another fifty women have been given disciplinary sentences for singing Kurdish songs and dancing to them and shouting slogans.
• Men kill 29 women in November 

  KCDP announced that 29 more women were murdered in November. Most of the murders were committed in homes.
• Women in War, a book project written by women from the Middle East and South Asia during Covid-19 

  Women in War is a book project which collects text written by women from the Middle East and South Asia during Covid-19. Mizgin from Afrin, who had to flee twice because of the invasion attacks carried out by Turkey, talked about her experiences.