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• Anger after murder of 13-year-old girl in Heseke 

  In Heseke, a 13-year-old girl was executed by family members because she refused to agree to a forced marriage with her cousin. The crime is causing horror in the autonomous regions of northern and eastern Syria and is driving women into the streets.
• Lawyer Arslan: Femicides are political 

  Amed Bar Association Women's Rights Center member, lawyer Rozerin Arslan, drew attention to the increasing massacres of women and added that the "unjust reduction of sentences for provocation" granted to men is impunity and actually encourages violence.
• Fidan Doğan Women's Festival held in Paris 

  The women's culture festival, named after the KNK representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) who was killed in France on 9 January 2013, took place in Paris for the fourth time.
• KJK Coordination says 1 July "not the end for women, but the beginning of a new struggle" 

  The KJK Coordination said that 1 July was not the end for women, but the beginning of a new struggle.
• We Will Stop Femicide Platform: 18 women murdered in June  

  The We Will Stop Femicide Platform announced that 18 women were murdered in June and 20 women died in suspicious circumstances.
• Buldan: It is a historical responsibility to endorse the HDP’s struggle 

  Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Pervin Buldan met women in Bursa and said that “It is a historical responsibility to endorse HDP's struggle, to join forces and protect democracy”.
• Women take to the streets today as Turkey leaves the Istanbul Convention 

  The Istanbul Convention Ankara Campaign Group called on all women to be on the streets today, 1 July, the day in which Turkey will officially withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.
• PAJK underlines importance of guerrilla Zîlan 

  25 years ago, the guerrilla Zeynep Kınacı (Zîlan) blew herself up in a Turkish military unit in Dersim. The PAJK commemorates the legendary fighter and her significance today.
• Women in Mersin: Let's take the streets on 1 July in defense of the Istanbul Convention 

  Women's organizations working in Mersin called on all women to take to the streets and defend the Istanbul Convention on 1 July, the day when the withdrawal becomes effective.
• TJA visits Deniz Poyraz’s family 

  Members of Free Women’s Movement (TJA) visited the family of Deniz Poyraz who was killed in the armed assault targeting the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Izmir Office and said, “We will create the society that Deniz dreamed of.”
• HDP Women's Assembly: We promise Deniz to increase struggle 

  The HDP Women Assembly said that ‘Our promise to Deniz and to all the murdered women is to increase our struggle.’
• Woman detained and threatened with rape: We won't step down 

  Yeşim Tükel, who was taken into custody during the house raids against the Revolutionary Party and Dev-Güç, although no arrest warrant was issued for her, was threatened with rape by special operations police.
• Women in Basel protest Turkish withdrawal from Istanbul Convention 

  Turkey's decision to withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and the increased killings of women as a result of the non-implementation of the Istanbul Convention were protested in Basel.
• "The murderer of Deniz Poyraz was not alone" 

  In Mardin, women took to the streets to demand justice for Deniz Poyraz despite a police blockade. HDP deputy Meral Danış Beştaş said that the murderer had not been alone and called on the interior minister and police chief to resign.
• KBDH: Our promise to Deniz will be revolution 

  "As KBDH, our promise to Deniz will be revolution. We will call those responsible for her murder to account, we will be Deniz and we will carry the struggle for women's freedom to victory."
• Women in Iskenderun claim the Istanbul Convention  

  Iskenderun Women's Platform, is holding a vigil for the Istanbul Convention every week. This week it drew attention to the importance of the Convention and said “we have no time to lose.”
• Women in Izmir pay tribute to Deniz Poyraz and claim the Istanbul Convention 

  Deniz Poyraz, the HDP member who was murdered in Izmir on 17 June, was commemorate at a sit-in for the Istanbul Convention. The women will be protesting until 1 July when the decision to withdraw from the Convention comes into effect.
• Felek Yusuf says AKP is afraid of emancipated women 

  Member of the Euphrates Region Women's Justice Council spoke on the anniversary of the Helince massacre which -she said- is embodiment of the fear against free women who resist, develop and lead.
• TJK-E: Let's build a chain of resistance from Europe to the Kurdish mountains 

  The Kurdish women's movement in Europe (TJK-E) held its 6th Congress and took ground breaking decisions for the implementation of the paradigm presented by Abdullah Öcalan of a grassroots, gender-free and ecological society.
• Police attack HDP women remembering Deniz Poyraz in İzmir 

  The HDP Women's Council renamed the street in Izmir where Deniz Poyraz was murdered last week by a Syrian-trained fascist. Police attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets.
• TJA spokeswoman Gökkan faces up to 35 years in prison 

  Prosecutor demands up to 35 years prison sentence for Free Women's Movement (TJA) Spokeswoman Ayşe Gökkan.
• Weaving for Life holds online panel against political femicide 

  The Weaving for Life platform organises its first online panel within the scope of campaign for struggle against political femicide.
• Kongra Star calls for actions to remember Zehra, Hebûn and Amina 

  On June 23 last year, three women, Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Xelîl and Amina Waysî were murdered by the fascist Turkish state in the village of Helincê in Kobanê.
• ‘The KDP should end its provocations’ 

  Women from Qamishlo protested the detention of representatives of the Autonomous Administration and Democratic Union Party in South Kurdistan.
• International delegation members meet Peace Mothers in Sulaymaniyah 

  Women from the international peace delegation in South Kurdistan visited the women's association in Sulaymaniyah and exchanged views with Peace Mothers who have lost their children in the war, some have children with the guerrilla and the peshmerga.