The women’s organisation Mor Dayanışma was founded 2014 in the spirit of the Gezi protests in Hatay, Turkey. In the course of time, assembly centres and places have been established in many cities, in which women educate themselves, become politically active and collectively resist the patriarchal capitalist system. The women gather for workshops; they can find legal, trade union or psychological support or even make handcrafts together, which enables them to earn their own or additional income.
Since the devastating earthquakes in February 2023, our work has especially focussed on women support and self-empowerment in the earthquake region Hatay/Turkey.
The February 6th earthquake exposed the reality that “it’s not the earthquake, but the buildings that kill,” revealing the lethality of a profit-driven system that prioritizes construction over safety. It also highlighted the collapse of all mechanisms within public institutions, their inadequacy, and the loss of intervention capacity due to their corporatization. Our responsibility now…
TRANSLATION of the Article »Stein für Stein« (Missy Magazine 4/23) about the work of Mor Dayanışma. The feminist network of Mor Dayanışma was already central before the earthquakes in Turkey, and since then, it has become vital for survival. The Gezi protests that swept the whole country ten years ago also gave wings to feminist…
UPDATE about our work in the earthquake regions: On February 6, 2023, the southeast of Turkey and the northeast of Syria were hit by a series of devastating earthquakes that have since officially taken over 59,259 lives, left more than 130,000 people injured and without homes, and directly impacted more than 15 million people. Since…
We started this page in spring 2023 in order to make our work visible for the international community – and also to get in exchange with feminist groups worldwide. We will try to update und fill this page on a regular basis.