Paris three Kurdish women murder suspect faces trial as Kurdish tensions resurface

August 14, 2015 By administrator

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PARIS – Reuters

A Turkish man suspected of murdering three Kurdish women in Paris in 2013 is to face trial amid renewed violence in Turkey’s southeast.

According to a French judicial source, the charge against the main suspect in the case, 33-year-old Ömer Güney, will be “assassination in connection with a terrorist organization,” as requested by an investigating magistrate in July.

Judicial sources have said he is thought to have acted under instructions from people in Turkey, and that those people may have had connections to the Turkish intelligence services.

Turkish officials have denied the allegations, suggesting instead that the murders were related to internal disputes in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Sakine Cansız, 55, a founding member of the PKK; Fidan Doğan, 32, a spokeswoman for the organization in France and Europe; and a trainee named Leyla Şaylemez, 25, were killed in Paris on Jan. 9, 2013.

The women were shot as cease-fire talks to end 29 years of conflict between the PKK and Turkey were starting.

Turkey also opened an investigation into the incident. Güney came to Ankara on Aug. 22, 2012, and applied for a new passport at the Ankara Police Department a day later, according to the initial investigation. He renewed his passport on Aug. 24, 2012.

Iraq: ISIL militants kill over dozen Iraqi women in Mosul

August 6, 2015 By administrator

Members of the Takfiri ISIL group have executed more than a dozen women in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul as they continue perpetrating crimes against humanity on a large scale in the areas under their control, according to Albawaba.com.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Monday that ISIL extremists have killed 19 women in the city, located some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, over the past two days after the victims refused to marry the militants.

Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights also reported on December 16, 2014, that ISIL terrorists had executed at least 150 women, including pregnant ones, in the country’s western province of al-Anbar, after they declined to marry the Takfiris.
The ministry further noted that the militants buried the women in mass graves in Fallujah, situated about 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.

Last month, Hana Nawafili, a spokeswoman for the Iraqi Observatory for the Defense of Battered Women, told Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency that ISIL terrorists had gang-raped seven female residents of Fallujah, and then murdered them.

Source: Panorama.am

Women Entrepreneurs Week launches in Armenia

June 8, 2015 By administrator

Women Entrepreneurs Week kicked off in Armenia on Monday. It has been organized by the Armenian Young Women’s Association and the Women Entrepreneurs Network of Armenia.

Armenian National Assembly Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan said at the opening of the event that they have a good opportunity to communicate, be informed about achievements and changes, as well as raise the problems faced by women entrepreneurs.

Women Entrepreneurs Week has brought together parliamentarians, cabinet members, representatives of NGOs, state agencies, business communities from France, Russia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Monaco, Iran, as well as representatives of the EU, IMF, EBRD and Asian Development Bank.

An international conference, an exhibition and a number of other events will be held within the framework of Women Entrepreneurs Week.

Source: Panorama.am

All women victims of violence in Turkey

March 3, 2015 By administrator

All women in Turkey have said they were exposed to sexual or physical violence after they turned 15 years old, according to a survey done by the security general directorate, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

All women, married or single, said they were exposed to either sexual or physical violence after the age of 15. The violence came from men they were in a close relationship with, including their partners, their families, their husband’s family, their relatives, and people from their school or workplace.

The research conducted by the security general directorate also revealed crucial details about the level of sexual violence against young girls.

Some 7 percent of women said they were exposed to sexual violence when they were less than 15 years old.

Three out of every ten women who have a high school or higher education level said they were exposed to either physical or sexual violence in their life

Married women are also victims of violence in Turkey, according to the research. Some 39 percent of married women were exposed to physical violence, while 15 percent of married women were victims of sexual violence across the country. The rate of emotional violence against married women is even higher at 44 percent.

Almost a quarter of the women surveyed said their husband or partner does not allow them to work.
Some 23 percent of women said their husband or partner forced them to quit their job or prevented them from working.

France Call for mobilization on September 1 at the Trocadero

September 1, 2014 By administrator

Gangs of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are currently trying to sell women Yezidi, Kurdish, Christian and Turkmen in slave markets. Deliberately targeted the Status of Women by these barbaric takes the form of acts of violence unparalleled, such as genital mutilation, stoning and mass rape. Women are forced to commit suicide in order to escape the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. We need to make women’s voices heard around the world face in this war waged by radical EIIL against women.

As such, we are mobilizing on September 1st at 5:30 p.m. at the Trocadero to denounce and strongly condemn this weapon of war used by EIIL against women and encourage anyone aware of the issue of women to join our cry of protest.

SKB-Union of Socialist Women