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Women ask political parties: Will you enact a law on equal representation?

Women ask political parties: Will you enact a law on equal representation?

Addressing a letter to political parties in Turkey, the Women’s Coalition has stressed that women worked for all legal regulations, conventions and mechanisms related to gender equality and underlined that “a new Constitution is a must.”

28 February 2022

History of party closures in Turkey

History of party closures in Turkey

Several predecessors of both the ruling AKP and the HDP, which is facing closure now, had been shut down throughout the history of the Republic.

19 March 2021 Hikmet Adal

Female Candidates Only Reach 6 Percent in Upcoming Elections

Female Candidates Only Reach 6 Percent in Upcoming Elections

Kadın Koalisyonu, a women’s right organization, released a report revealing the number of female candidates assigned by political parties in the upcoming municipal elections. The percentage of female mayor candidates were listed as follows: AKP and MHP (1%), CHP (4%) and BDP (17%).

20 January 2014