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About Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma <\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma is a women\u2019s self-organization that stands against the patriarchal capitalist system, which dominates women\u2019s bodies, labor, and identities. Drawing strength from a socialist feminist perspective, it defends both the theoretical and practical foundations of this struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 2014, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma has carried out local organizing work through the collective will of women who struggle to defend their lives under the banner of \u201cwomen\u2019s solidarity,\u201d standing against sexual harassment, rape, all forms of violence against women, femicides, war, the exploitation of women\u2019s bodies and labor, the plunder of nature, homophobia, and all forms of hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women organized in Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma have come together from homes, kitchens, workplaces, workshops, and factories, and continue to do so. We stand side by side with our sisters from every background, language, and identity, act together against male-dominated spaces, and develop socialist feminist politics in response to the specific problems women face in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women organized in Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma create spaces for women to express themselves, develop feminist politics, and strengthen women\u2019s solidarity. They do so through women\u2019s assemblies established in many provinces, districts, and neighborhoods, and through various working commissions, particularly on law, psychosocial support, health, culture, and arts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Where We Come From<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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After a long period of stagnation, the women\u2019s movement in Turkey entered a new phase through the mobilizations for abortion rights, the Gezi Resistance, the \u00d6zgecan Aslan uprising, and the March 6\u20138 protests in 2016. The year 2017 became a year in which women raised their voices against increasing femicides and the spiral of violence surrounding every aspect of life, declaring that they would not remain silent and strengthening both solidarity and struggle. The year 2018 was filled with the voices of women who refused to submit to child abuse, said no to one-man rule, rejected obedience, and sought freedom. In 2019, women filled the streets and squares with the slogan \u201cWe Will Not Pay the Price of the Economic Crisis,\u201d standing against the male-dominated system that sought to trap women in violence, poverty, and unemployment amid a spiral of crises. The Las Tesis actions, which resonated across the world, marked the beginning of a new process that brought women\u2019s struggle onto an international ground. With the courage and hope created by women\u2019s rebellion in the streets, local revolts were organized and collective strength was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma\u2019s work began with women from Antakya who raised the banner of rebellion during the 2013 mobilizations for abortion rights and the Gezi Resistance. As the work in Antakya resonated and created new connections, women in Adana also became part of this organizing process. Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma became the voice and expression of women in southern Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2014, women from Antakya founded the Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma Association in Antakya. Our association began its work not as an organization waiting for women to come to its center, but as one that went into the neighborhoods.\n\nIn the neighborhoods, we organized panels on women\u2019s health, communication workshops, film screenings, and women\u2019s gatherings, as well as focus group meetings titled \u201cThe Problems Are Clear, the Solution Lies in Solidarity\u201d and talks titled \u201cHow Can We Stop Violence in the Neighborhoods?\u201d\n\nMor Dayan\u0131\u015fma Women\u2019s Association also participated in the \u201cGender through Games\u201d event held within the scope of Sabanc\u0131 University\u2019s Purple Certificate Program; the \u201cWomen\u2019s Human Rights Training Program Training of Trainers\u201d prepared by Women for Women\u2019s Human Rights, New Ways; the project \u201cAgainst Violence against Refugee Women: Changing the Language and Mindsets of the Media\u201d prepared by the Women\u2019s Studies Association in Ankara; the \u201cWomen in Local Governments Project\u201d prepared by Ye\u015filp\u0131nar Social Assistance Association; and the Women\u2019s Shelters Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire of rebellion lit in Antakya and Adana quickly spread across the country. Women from Antakya, Adana, Mersin, \u0130zmir, \u0130stanbul, and Antalya decided to turn women\u2019s anger into an organized struggle and to build a collective consciousness and movement for women\u2019s liberation.\n\nWhen women came together on September 23, 24, and 25, 2016, they gathered around the call: \u201cWe set out from homes, kitchens, workshops, and factories.\u201d Empowered by this gathering, they launched the \u201cpainting life purple\u201d campaign across Turkey. This marked the beginning of the publication of Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma women\u2019s newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing at the neighborhood level, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma established local women\u2019s assemblies wherever it could reach. Through workshops on literacy, erbane, yoga, women\u2019s choir, self-defense, literature, and more, as well as seminars on gender, women\u2019s health and rights, and women\u2019s labor, it created spaces for women to express themselves. It enabled women from different backgrounds to come together around the common problems they face as women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, with the 2nd Women\u2019s Camp held on August 25\u201327, 2017, and the 1st Turkey Women\u2019s Conference held on December 23\u201324, 2017, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma demonstrated a strong women\u2019s collective will across the country.\n\nAt our women\u2019s conferences, held every two years, we discuss the motions and organizing strategies that shape the feminist politics we will pursue in the coming period. Through nominations from provincial assemblies to the Turkish Assembly and the Central Coordination, we share and transfer our organizational mechanisms to new comrades by means of democratic methods and semi-direct representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2nd Turkey Women\u2019s Conference was held on February 8\u20139, 2019, under the slogan \u201cStruggle Against All Odds, Freedom Against All Odds\u201d<\/strong>. With the strength and hope created by broad participation and solidarity from both Turkey and abroad, we set out with our call: \u201cOrganize 2020, organize with Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3rd Turkey Women\u2019s Conference was held on June 11\u201312, 2021, under the slogan \u201cNow Is the Time to Take One More Step for an Equal, Free World Without Exploitation!\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, with the initiative of regional assemblies, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma began organizing in more provinces. It held its 4th Turkey Women\u2019s Conferences in three different regions, Marmara, the Aegean, and the South, with the participation of hundreds of women, under the slogan \u201cNot Alone, Strong Together!\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the women\u2019s camps held every summer;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma held its 3rd Women\u2019s Camp on August 3\u20135, 2018, under the slogan \u201cFreedom Is Right Beside Us! In Our Hands! Wherever Women Are, There It Is!\u201d<\/strong>, and its 4th Women\u2019s Camp on August 23\u201325, 2019, under the slogan \u201cWomen Exist, Women Are Everywhere!\u201d<\/strong>, with the participation of hundreds of women from many different provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the regional assemblies initiative in 2020, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma held its 5th Women\u2019s Camp in two different regions with the participation of hundreds of women. The Southern Region Women\u2019s Camp was held on August 28\u201329, and the Aegean Region Women\u2019s Camp on September 4\u20135, under the slogan \u201cEven If the World Turns Upside Down, We Do Not Give Up on Each Other, Our Struggle, Our Lives, or Our Joy\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma held its 6th Women\u2019s Camp under the slogan \u201cWe Are Not Carried by the Current, but by the Wave of Hope!\u201d<\/strong> in the Southern Region on September 3\u20134 and in the Aegean Region on September 10\u201311.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2022, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma has also begun organizing women\u2019s camps in the Marmara Region. It held its 7th Women\u2019s Camp under the slogan \u201cAgainst the Darkness, Hope Lies with Women\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma held its 8th Women\u2019s Camp under the slogan \u201cI Have Raised the Banner of Rebellion, Waving Freely Above Me!\u201d<\/strong>. The Marmara Region camp was held on August 9\u201311, the Aegean Region camp on August 17\u201318, and the Southern Region camp on August 23\u201325.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the summer of 2023, we held panels titled \u201cAn Age of Disasters? A Spiral of Crises? What Should Women Do? Where Is the Way Out?\u201d Based on the needs that emerged from these panels, as well as from the discussions we carried out in our traditional summer women\u2019s camps held in three regions over the past year and in our winter women\u2019s camp, we decided to organize an international symposium. On January 14, 2024, Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma held the symposium titled \u201cExperiences of International Organized Feminist Struggle amid the Crisis of Patriarchal Capitalism\u201d at \u0130stanbul M\u00fcze Gazhane, with the participation of nearly five hundred women and LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the participation of feminists from Iran, Lebanon, France, Poland, and Italy, we discussed the current state of women\u2019s movements and feminist movements around the world, as well as their urgent needs. Presentations were delivered by Zuzanna Dorota Karcz from Poland, a member of New Way of Activism; Diana Moukalled from Lebanon, a feminist activist and journalist at Daraj; ARYA MERON\u0130 from France, a member of Assembl\u00e9e f\u00e9ministe Montreuil and Coordination F\u00e9ministe; Lucia Amorossi and Irene Cau from Italy, members of Potere al Popolo and Ni Una Menos; and Foorogh Sheykholeslami from Iran, founder and member of Stop Honour Killings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second session, participants from the women\u2019s movement in Turkey delivered their presentations. Our comrades from Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma, Campus Witches, the Purple List of the Genel-\u0130\u015f Union, Women Together Are Strong, and the DEM Women\u2019s Assembly took the floor. Perihan Koca, one of the founders of Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma, spokesperson of the Social Freedom Party and DEM Party MP, and musician Gaye Su Akyol also sent their greetings to the symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma also decided to expand its association spaces as places where women could meet, socialize, and organize. With the Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma Association opened in \u0130stanbul, Be\u015fikta\u015f on August 3, 2019, and the association opened in Kartal on January 4, 2020, it carried its local organizing work one step further. Today, of these two association spaces, the one in Kartal has been closed due to financial difficulties, while the association in Be\u015fikta\u015f has moved to the Beyo\u011flu district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Di\u011fer dernek binalar\u0131 23 Nisan 2022\u2019de Adana\u2019da, 17 Nisan 2022\u2019de \u0130zmir\u2019de, 18 Temmuz 2023\u2019te Mersin\u2019de a\u00e7\u0131ld\u0131 ve faaliyetlerine devam ediyorlar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the February 6 earthquakes centered in Mara\u015f, our first association building, the Antakya Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma building, was severely damaged and unfortunately had to be demolished. Following the women\u2019s tent activities we launched across Hatay, we opened our prefabricated association space in Samanda\u011f on July 15, 2023, and our association space in Antakya\/Serinyol on May 18, 2024. The documentary \u201c\u00c7ATI\u201d<\/strong>, filmed by members of our \u0130stanbul Culture and Arts Commission, is an important work on the women\u2019s solidarity and struggle that grew out of the women\u2019s tents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 and continues to contribute its labor to organized socialist feminist struggle, both in its association spaces and in the neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Where Are We? <\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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We are organized in \u0130stanbul, Kocaeli, \u0130zmir, Ankara, Bal\u0131kesir, Yalova, Ayd\u0131n, Hatay, Denizli, Adana, Antalya, Mersin, Bursa, Antep, and Ad\u0131yaman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bursa, \u00c7anakkale, \u015e\u0131rnak, Edirne, Samsun, Van ve bir\u00e7ok farkl\u0131 \u015fehirde kad\u0131n dayan\u0131\u015fmas\u0131n\u0131 b\u00fcy\u00fctmek isteyen ve m\u00fccadeleye g\u00f6n\u00fcl vermi\u015f k\u0131z karde\u015flerimizle bulu\u015fup \u00f6zg\u00fcrl\u00fck aray\u0131\u015f\u0131m\u0131z\u0131 g\u00fc\u00e7lendiriyoruz.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our Work<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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  • Awareness-raising initiatives<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Movie screenings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Pioneering women's workshops<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Self-confidence and creative drama activities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Self-defense workshops<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Share, Smile, and Make Others Smile Exchange Events<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nature hikes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Physical and psychological support activities against violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Panels and discussions on health, sociology, and psychology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Women's choirs, arts and culture workshops<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Storytelling Workshops<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Mor Dayan\u0131\u015fma Women\u2019s Newspaper<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Book Discussions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Summer camps<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Women's Conference<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Women\u2019s Human Rights Training Program (K\u0130HEP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n