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For Turkey’s women the fight doesn’t end with the run-off

In Turkey, Erdogan’s government has whittled away women’s rights over 20 years in power, and the country’s women are fed up. “We’re not gone. We are still fighting here.”

by Xanthe Scharff

Conservative Muslim Women Helped Erdoğan Win Previous Elections. Now Some Are Turning Against Him

Religious women are teaming up with secular feminists to fight back against the government’s growing authoritarianism and receding rights for women in the wake of Sunday’s pivotal elections in Turkey.

by Fariba Nawa

Co-published with TIME

What the World Loses if Turkey Destroys the Syrian Kurds

Amid crackdowns on supporters of the Kurdish movement in Turkey, Kurdish Syria became the heart of the greater Kurdish movement.

by Jenna Krajeski

This article was originally published in The New York Times.

Women are Dying in Turkey

On a quiet November evening in 2014, Eda Okutgen left her apartment in the coastal Turkish city of Izmir and ran for her life. She didn’t get far.

by Sophia Jones

This article was originally published in Foreign Affairs.

Turkish Women Rising

Turkish women risk peril in demanding their rights. One particular group refused to keep quiet, catapulting the fight for women’s rights into the spotlight.

by Christina Asquith and Sophia Jones

This article was originally published in Ms. Magazine.

Why Turkey won’t say the G-word when it comes to the Armenians

Most Turks and their government do not believe that the events of 1915 — known by Armenians as the Armenian Genocide — were genocide.

by Christina Asquith and Audrey Pence

This article was originally published on CNN.

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