Sarya Women’s Co-operative was founded by a group of women in Mardin after the March 31 2019 local elections. It started its work by planting green beans in a three-hectare plot, after which the women sold the harvest and launched more agricultural projects in several villages.
How Turkey’s Anti-Kurdish Crackdowns Threaten Women Across the Middle East
This article analyzes women’s political representation in Kurdish-majority regions of Turkey before and after the 2019 crackdown on elected mayors from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), as well as women’s political representation in the Syrian region of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) before and after Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring.
