Happy 2008 to everyone; I think that, as more women become involved in politics in the coming year, we need to plan and work toward a goal.

It has been months since I have written and posted my first message here. We need to support each other. When I was in DC, I met NDI and told them the same thing: that we have to plan a training to help women who run for office and we can do this via the internet too, just downloading from here.

This is happening in university education around the world, so why can't we train women via the internet too?

Ladies! We need to help each other out. We need to network and put together our powers to help out other women to run for political positions and to be elected.

From the start I always believed that if there are more women in the world as elected officials, there will be less war!

So I looking forward to hear your ideas. I believe that together we can do this! Let's help more women get elected in the world!

Tugba Kalafatoglu