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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 ...
During this early period, the women's rights claims overlapped with the Kemalist reform process in the aftermath of the Republic. [38] On 17 November 1972, National Women's Party of Turkey founded by Mübeccel Göktuna Törüner in İstanbul. Although Turkish women gained universal suffrage in 1934, in the 1970s women's participation in Turkish ...
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 ...
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]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Women's suffrage in Turkey" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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 ...
Türk Kadınlar Birliği (Turkish Women's Union) was a women's organization in Turkey, founded in 1924. [1] It was the main women's suffrage organization in Turkey. It played a significant part in the history of the Turkish women's movement.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Turkish women's rights activists ... Pages in category "Women's rights in Turkey" The following 4 pages are in this category ...