Women's organizations have called for gender equality education for all in society starting from the top levels, including the president and the prime minister, and down to the bottom, including private citizens, police officers, judges and prosecutors in the wake of a landmark European Court of
"Turkey can recover its gender equality performance. In this respect, the CHP, as Turkey's social democratic party proposes the following:
Founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Fatma Bostan Ünsal submitted her application for candidacy for the June 12 election, saying that it was her duty to apply, to represent women wearing headscarves in Turkey.
A recent opinion poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of the Turkish population favors the election of headscarved women to Parliament as deputies, amidst a heated debate over whether political parties can reach a consensus to allow women to enter Parliament with their headscarves.
Many parts of society have begun to loudly voice their demand for the election of a headscarf-wearing deputy or deputies to Parliament in the June 12 general elections.
Amid election promises posed by political parties, a group of women formed a movement with the slogan “No headscarf-wearing candidate – No votes,” demanding that political parties in Turkey include headscarf-wearing candidates in their deputy lists.
Working in nongovernmental organizations seems to be bringing women closer to politics. A number of NGOs in Turkey are sending their members to Parliament to work for the empowerment of women in the legislative or even executive bodies.
With the forthcoming elections of June 2011, the issue of “equal representation of women” in the parliament is back on the agenda. While many women are being candidates for the elections, they also expect the politicians to nominate them to the positions that they might be elected in the l
Following the naming of transsexual Öykü Özen as a candidate nominee from the main opposition, another transsexual has applied to run for Parliament from the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.