“Women Face ‘Violence’ Even at Representation”

Association for Support of Women Candidates (KA.DER) released its annual “Women-Men Equality at Representation” report, saying that the women’s representation situation remained “immobile”. 

According to KA.DER’s statistics, only 77 out of 550 parliamentary deputies and 1 out of 26 ministers are women. In addition, 2 province governor out of 81 and 1 out of 25 undersecretaries are women. Other striking results for women included: Metropolitan mayors (3 out of 30) and university presidents (14 out of 174). It was also underlined that only one of Turkey’s top judiciary organ chairs are women.  

“Women in Turkey can’t exist anywhere in the decision-making. They are even facing violence at representation,” KA.DER said in a statement. 

According KA.DER, the current representation of women at the Parliament is 14.39 percent. 

“In the upcoming elections of June 2015, at least 50 percent of deputies must be women out of 550,” the report underlined. 

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