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Women activists in Turkey launched a new campaign aimed at increasing the number of women elected to parliament. The campaign depicts the patriarchal society in Turkey by featuring well-known women wearing false moustaches.
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In Turkey women are becoming more enthusiastic over becoming parliamentary candidates, and almost all the political parties are trying to do something toward positive discrimination for women.
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Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey's secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer's elections.
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Several of Turkey's NGO's gathered to discuss strategies for penetrating ‘the old boys network' of Turkey's parliament yesterday, just a month before Turkey's general elections. Among the answers proposed were a quota system, which would require a minimum number of seats in parliament to be guaranteed for women candidates, and a larger push to catalyze women into politics nationwide.
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Informal economy negatively affects the participation of women in labor force. 66 percent of women work unregistered, stated Nimet Çubukçu, State Minister for Women and Family Affairs yesterday in Istanbul
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On July 2nd, ESI Analyst and TPQ Editor Nigar Göksel chaired a roundtable meeting organized by the ARI Movement in Istanbul's Bilgi University on women in Turkey with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as guest speaker.

Seventy years ago, Turkey was one of the first countries to give women the vote. Seven decades later, there is only one woman in Turkey's 20-member parliament. From Istanbul, Dorian Jones reports on a new initiative to build women's political power.
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Female representation in the newly elected parliament is at its highest level in the history of the Turkish republic with 50 female deputies, thanks to campaigns to raise awareness on the subject.The former parliament had only 24 female deputies, 4.4 percent of the total. The highest level of female representation in Parliament was 4.6 percent in 1935.
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Women's groups in Turkey have condemned a new draft constitution, saying it sets the country back years in terms of gender equality. The document describes women as a vulnerable group needing protection.
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