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Source: Al Jazeera
Friday, June 09, 2023
Who is Hafize Gaye Erkan, Turkey’s new central bank chief?
Al Jazeera
Hafize Gaye Erkan has been named governor of the Central Bank of Turkey, an institution expected to play a key role in efforts to boost the country’s crisis-hit economy. Erkan becomes the first woman to head the institution after being appointed by...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a summit organized by AK Party's women's branches, in Istanbul, Turkiye on December 19, 2022 [Mustafa Kamacı - Anadolu Agency]
Friday, May 19, 2023
Women's representation in Turkiye Parliament at highest level in history
The Middle East Monitor
Women's representation in the Turkish Parliament will be the highest level in history after Sunday's parliamentary elections, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the unofficial results, 121 women secured seats in the 600-member Parliament. The...
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Source: Turkish Minute
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women’s representation in Turkey’s new parliament increases to 20 percent but remains low
Turkish Minute
Among the female candidates who were nominated by political parties for a seat in the Turkish parliament in the May 14 general election, 121 have been elected, corresponding to 20 percent of the 600-seat legislature, the Kronos news website reported...
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Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a poll say they would support a woman in their family entering politics, but only 17.4 percent of the deputies elected to the Turkish parliament in 2018 were women [File: Dilara Senkaya/Reuters]
Friday, May 12, 2023
Women face political barriers ahead of Turkey elections
Al Jazeera
Polling shows that most Turks want more women involved in politics, but their underrepresentation continues. Istanbul, Turkey – A nondescript apartment in Istanbul’s business district is the nerve centre of a drive to propel more women into Turkish...
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What drives women’s substantive representation in muslim-majority countries? Lessons from Turkey - Sage Journals
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Report / White Paper
What drives women’s substantive representation in muslim-majority countries? Lessons from Turkey
Sage Journals
Although a voluminous literature has studied the substantive representation of women, these studies have largely been confined to advanced democracies. Similarly, studies that focus on the relationship between Islam and women’s rights largely...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Women in Politics 2020 Map: Turkey Ranks 122nd
Bianet
According to the “Women in Politics 2020” Map prepared by UN Women and IPU, Turkey ranks 138th in the category of women in ministerial positions while it ranks 122nd in the category of women in parliament, marking a degrade of two rankings. Prepared...
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Monday, October 10, 2016
When Women Lead the Revolution: In a remote corner of Syria, female fighters are taking the battle to ISIS and building a new society at the same time
The Syrian civil war has produced a catalogue of horrors – cities bombed into rubble, the rise of ISIS, refugees fleeing across open seas on makeshift rafts– that have been widely covered in the Western media. During this same time, the dissolution...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Women and Politics in Turkey
CaféBabel, the collaborative online magazine created by young Europeans in 2001, published an article on the relationship between women and politics in Turkey. In the article, Seyma Gelen, feminist and researcher transnational electoral sociology at...
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Women should not laugh in public, Turkish deputy PM says
Women should not laugh out loud in public, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said while complaining about “moral corruption” in Turkey.  Speaking during an Eid el-Fitr meeting on July 28, Arınç described his ideal of the chaste man or woman,...
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Women's rights in Turkey
Turkey has often been at the forefront of women's rights in the Middle East. But the recent rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and more conservative social norms encouraged by the Justice and Development Party (or AKP), have raised...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Where is women’s place in local government in Turkey?
Dec. 5 was the 79th anniversary of the day Turkish women were granted the right to vote and to be elected.  The confusion in the domestic and external agenda caused this gain to be celebrated less than it deserved.  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and friends...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Where is women’s place in local government?, Turkey
Dec. 5 was the 79th anniversary of the day Turkish women were granted the right to vote and to be elected.  The confusion in the domestic and external agenda caused this gain to be celebrated less than it deserved.  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and friends...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Women Protesters in Turkey Brave Sexual Harassment
On Sept. 11, a story broke about a female student taken into custody at one of the most prestigious universities of Turkey, Middle East Technical University (METU). Ezgi Ozen and her friends were protesting a government road project that may destroy...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
Report / White Paper
Women in Politics: Opinion Research Paper
This research paper aims to determine how the Turkish society perceives the participation of women in politics. Among other issues, the research was conducted to analyze people's attitude towards women's participation in political decision-making...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Website / Database
Women for Women’s Human Rights - New Ways
Women for Women’s Human Rights - New Ways is a women’s and human rights NGO established in Turkey. It seeks to promote women’s human rights and to support the active and broad participation of women as free individuals and equal citizens in the...
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