In the 88th year of gaining the right to vote and be elected, women are represented by 17.1 percent in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In the list showing the representation of women in world parliaments, Turkey ranks 129th. The process of women’s coming to the place they deserve in social and political life in Turkey gained momentum with the proclamation of the Republic on October 29, 1923. As a result of the importance given to women in this period, women were given rights before many European countries. The data reveal that although women are starting to be more active in the public and private sectors, they are not in the desired place in politics. After the rights gained with the Turkish Civil Code adopted in 1926, Turkish women were granted the right to participate in the municipal elections in 1930, the mukhtar elections in 1933, and the right to elect and be elected as a deputy on December 5, 1934. After the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the Netherlands, which gave women the right to vote and be elected, Turkey became one of the countries that gave women the opportunity to have a say in the administration. Women in France in 1944, in Italy in 1945, in Argentina, Mexico and Japan in 1947, in Belgium in 1948, in China in 1949, in Greece in 1952, in Switzerland. In 1971, he gained the right to vote and be elected. The representation of Turkish women did not increase until 2002, after 4.5 percent in the 1935 elections, when she entered the parliament for the first time. In the 2002 elections, it rose to 4.4 percent, which was the 1935 level. The representation of female MPs in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey increased to 9.1 percent in 2007; to 14.3 percent in the 2011 elections; In the 7 June 2015 elections, it reached the highest level in the history of the Republic with 17.6 percent. While this rate decreased to 14.1 percent in the 1 June 2015 elections, it increased to 17.1 percent in the 24 June 2018 elections, which was the last general election. After the last election, 103 of the 600 deputies who entered the Parliament were women and 497 were men. Turkey ranks 129th According to the data of the “Women in Politics 2021” map prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Women’s Unit, Turkey ranks 129th among 188 countries in terms of women’s representation in parliaments. According to the latest election results, the Rwandan parliament, of which 49 out of 80 deputies are women, is at the top of the list with a representation rate of 61.3 percent. In the list, after Rwanda, Cuba is second with 53.4 percent female representation, and the United Arab Emirates is third with 50 percent. The female representation rate in the world parliaments is higher in European countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Czech Republic, as well as in the USA, China, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and TRNC than Turkey. According to the list, among the countries ranked lower than Turkey, the Russian Federation is ranked 138th, Brazil is ranked 142nd, India is ranked 148th, and Japan is ranked 166th. Meanwhile, in the last 42 years, at most 2 women ministers have served in each cabinet. local governments 19 local elections were held from 1930 to 2019, when it was paved the way for Turkish women to have a seat in local governments. In these elections, the number of men elected to the provincial mayor was 1313, and the number of women was 14. According to the 2019 local election data of the Ministry of Interior, 1389 mayors serve in Turkey. The number of female mayors is 41. In 81 provinces, only 4 women are sitting in the seat of mayor. 2,284 out of 20,745 city council members; 115 out of 18 thousand 196 village headmen; 970 of 32 thousand 19 neighborhood headmen are women. These data reveal that women are represented by 11 percent in municipal councils, 0.6 percent in village headmen, and 3 percent in neighborhood mukhtars.
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