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The right of women to vote and run in municipal elections was recognized on April 3, 1930 with the adoption of the Municipal Code. Women used their political rights for the first time in Municipal elections in 1930. The elections lasted from the beginning of September until the 20th of October. Among the women who can enter the city councils are Hasane Nalan and Benal Nevzat Hanım, the two ...
On 17 February 1926, Turkey adopted a new civil code by which the rights of Turkish women and men were declared equal except in suffrage. [1] Turkish women achieved voting rights in local elections by Act no. 1580 on 3 April 1930. [ 2 ]
During the conference, the fact that Turkey had recently introduced women's suffrage was celebrated by the International Alliance of Women, and after the Conference, the women's organization Türk Kadinlar Birligi was dissolved by its president Latife Bekir, who declared that Turkey had now reached its goal in the issue of women's rights, after ...
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey's largest cities on Thursday to protest against the country's withdrawal from an international treaty to combat ...
An average of 358 women a day applied to law enforcement officers after suffering violence in 2016. Around five women every hour, or 115 a day, were faced with the threat of murder. The Umut Foundation released statistics regarding violence against women in Turkey on International Women's Day, showing that 397 women were killed in Turkey in 2016.
In the Grand National Assembly of Turkey the percentage of women is 9.1 (17.3 percent is the average in the world). [171] In 1975 the percentage was 10.9 and in 2006 it was 16.3. [172] Only 5.58 percent of mayors are women and in the whole of Turkey there is one governor (among 81) and 14 local governors. [171]
Turkey: Equal right to university education for both men and women. [23] Turkey: Women gain the right to stand for local election. [118] South Africa: The Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930, was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which granted white women aged 21 and older the right to run for office. 1931
In 2013, the Supreme Court effectively gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act that had required local election officials in areas with a history of discrimination to run their laws by the ...