#50PercentWomen Campaign
Half of Turkey’s population is women. In the local elections, we want a #50PercentWomen Mayor.
I ELECT WOMEN
We need politics and politicians who think for an equal, free and fair order.
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Publications
Active Participation of Young Women in Local Government Guide
15 November 2024
The guide titled "Active Participation of Young Women in Local Government", which we prepared as part of the "Roundtable Meetings for Democracy" project, has been published. *This guide has been prepared as part of a project supported by the Human Rights Fund/Matra Fund of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Meetings
Meeting with Sammy Duesdieker, Human Rights Officer at the German Consulate in Turkey
17 October 2024
We exchanged ideas about joint projects with Sammy Duesdieker, Human Rights Officer at the German Consulate in Turkey. We had a productive meeting on future cooperation and possible projects.
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Meetings
We held our Women-Friendly Cities event
08 October 2024
We held our Women-Friendly Cities event consisting of two sessions in collaboration with the Istanbul City Council. In the first session, we came together with women politicians in Istanbul and talked about women-friendly cities. In the second session, we organized a roundtable meeting with women citizens and women politicians. In the roundtable meeting, citizens conveyed the problems in Istanbul to politicians. Then, we all came up with project proposals together.
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Panels and Forums
Democratic Civic Education: New Directions and New Challenges (DEMED)
27 September 2024
We attended the meeting titled "Democratic Civic Education: New Directions and New Challenges" within the scope of the DEMED (Democracy Under Threat and How to Save it) project carried out by the University of Glasgow and talked about our Civic Education projects.
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Field trips-grassroots
We organized our Women-Friendly Cities event consisting of two sessions in cooperation with the Kırklareli City Council. In the first session, we came together with women politicians in Kırklareli and talked about women-friendly cities. In the second session, we organized a roundtable meeting with young women citizens and women politicians.
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BEN SEÇERİM
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THE WOMAN OF
I CHOOSE
The Woman of “I Choose”
“I Choose” advocates representation of women in politics for the construction of an egalitarian, free and just social order. In this context, “I Choose” will endorse and support women who will be committed to the following five basic commitments:
- Adhering to the principle of equality, regardless of religion, language, sect and race, especially gender inequality and internalized these principles in her life,
- Espousing political ethics,
- Acknowledging that negotiation and reconciliation, not conflict, are the keys to transformation,
- Aware of her responsibilities to her voters and the public, and prioritizing democratization of the country,
- Aware of the necessity of new, pluralistic politics.
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Overall Turkey Women's Representation
You can see the represantation info for each city by clicking on the city on the map.