The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics

Translation Coordinators' Preface - Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun, and Janet Biehl
Preface to English Edition - Gültan K¿¿anak
Overview: The Growing Struggle for Women's Liberation - Gültan K¿¿anak
1. How Will You Find That Many Women? - Aysel Tu¿luk
2. Mother, Child, Prison - Burcu Çelik Özkan
3. We Never Considered It from That Angle - Çälar Demirel
4. Hurry up and Fix Things-Don't Let Us Down Before Our Husbands- Diba Keskin
5. I Struggled Hard, But I Never Gave Up - Dilek Hatipo¿lu
6. We Have Your Keys. You Can Come and Get Them - Edibe ¿ahin
7. Women's Worked Viewed as Frivolous - Evin Keve
8. You're Going to Eat with the Men? - Fatma Do¿an
9. History Has No Love for Women Who Stop and Keep Quiet - Figen Yüksekdä
10. Three Times Elected, Three Years Barred from Serving - Gülser Y¿ld¿r¿m
11. Being a Woman is Hard ... Even Dangerous - Gültan K¿¿anak
12. Are Men Going to Walk Behind a Woman? - Leyla Güven
13. Mayor, We Don't Dare Say Anything to These Women Anymore - Mukaddes Kubilay
14. One Must Travel from City to City. Women Can't Do It - Nurhayat Altun
15. Women Should Be the Ones to Handle Finances - Sara Kaya
16. This Woman Is Tough as Nails - Sadiye Süer Baran
17. From Prison to Parliament - Sebahat Tuncel
18. Imprisoned for Providing Services - Selma Karakoç
19. One Woman Became Eighty - Y¿ld¿z Çetin
20. Is Sir Chiefwoman in? - Zeynep Han Bingöl
21. They've Turned It into a Women's Municipality - Zeynep Sipçik
22. Breaking Down the Doors - Selma Irmak

Freedom for Aysel Tu¿luk
Translators and Coordinators

Gültan Kışanak is a longtime journalist, politician and anticolonial feminist activist for Kurdish liberation, who was elected to Parliament in 2007 as the MP from Diyarbakır. In 2016 she was arrested and charged with 'being a member of an armed illegal organization', for which she was sentenced to over 14 years imprisonment. Ruken Isik holds a Ph.D. in the field of Gender and Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Emek Ergun is an Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Janet Biehl was the collaborator of the late Murray Bookchin. She translated Revolution in Rojava by Knapp et al. and the memoirs of the Kurdish revolutionary, Sakine Cansiz.