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Women's Suffrage In Turkey
The recognition of women's right to choose and be elected refers to the adoption of laws necessary for women to gain political rights in Turkey in the 1930s. The achievement of women's right to choose and be elected in political life is one of the Atatürk's reforms that took place in social life. With a series of laws enacted since 1930, women were given the right to first participate in municipal elections, then become headmen in villages, and be elected to councils of elders. Their rights to elect and be elected as MPs were recognized with the amendment made to the Constitution and Election Law on December 5, 1934. The right to vote and to be elected in municipal elections The right of women to vote and run in municipal elections was recognized on April 3, 1930 with the adoption of the Municipal Code. Women used their political rights for the first time in Municipal elections in 1930. The elections lasted from the beginning of September until the 20th of October. Among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 09 24 Vakit Kadinlar
Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. * February 6 – 6 February 1934 crisis, French political crisis: The French far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, in an attempted coup d'état against the French Third Republic, Third Republic. * February 9 ** Gaston Doumergue forms a new government in France. ** Second Hellenic Republic, Greece, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, Turkey and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia form the Balkan Pact. * February 12–February 15, 15 – Austrian Civil War: The Fatherland Front (Austria), Fatherland Front consolidates its power in a series of clashes across the country. * February 16 – The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's People Party
Women's People Party () was one of the political party initiatives in Turkey. It was founded before the Republican People's Party under the leadership of Nezihe Muhiddin. Establishment and Activities When the republic was declared in 1923, Nezihe Muhiddin and thirteen women decided to gather a women's committee for women's rights. The party demanded suffrage for women, based on the argument that women had contributed their share to the victory over the Greek enemy and other occupiers of Anatolia. Mustafa Kemal, however, had planned to use the name ‘People’s Party’ for his own political party and thought women were still not ready for active participation in politics.Os, Nicole A. N. M. Van. "Ottoman Muslim and Turkish Women in an International Context." European Review 13, no. 3 (2005): 459-79. After the national struggle, women speeded up their actions. As a result of the changing conditions and the accumulation that has come from the Ottoman Empire, both their views on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Republic Of Turkey
The Turkey, Republic of Turkey was created after the Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, overthrow of Sultan Mehmed VI by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1922 by the new Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Republican Parliament in 1923. This new regime delivered the ''coup de grâce'' to the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the World War I, First World War. Background The Ottoman Empire, consisting of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, was, since its foundation in , ruled as an absolute monarchy. Between 1839 and 1876 the Empire went through Tanzimat, a period of reform. The Young Ottomans who were dissatisfied with these reforms worked together with Sultan Abdülhamid II to realize First Constitutional Era, some form of constitutional arrangement in 1876. After the short-lived attempt of turning the Empire into a constitutional monarchy, Sultan Abdülhamid II turned it back into an absolute monarchy by 1878 by suspending the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In Turkey
Events in the year 1934 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 57–59 Parliament * 4th Parliament of Turkey Incumbents *President – Kemal Atatürk *Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü Ruling party and the main opposition * Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP) Cabinet * 7th government of Turkey Events *9 February – Balkan Pact *4 March – Ankara Radio began broadcasting *14 June – Resettlement Law *21 June – Surname Law *24 November – Atatürk surname for Mustafa Kemal *5 December – Women's suffrage (general and local elections) Births *21 February – Aytekin Kotil, politician (d. 1992) *5 March – Halit Refiğ, movie director (d. 2009) *23 April – Fikret Hakan, actor (d. 2017) *30 March – Mahmut Atalay, wrestler (d. 2004) *2 August – Oktay Sinanoğlu, academic, chemist (d. 2015) *10 August – Tevfik Kış, wrestler (d. 2019) *21 August – İzzet Günay, actor *22 August – Ayla Erduran, v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Çankırı
Çankırı, historically known as Gangra (Greek language, Greek: Γάγγρα), is a city in Turkey, about northeast of Ankara. It is situated about 800 m (2500 ft) above sea level. It is the seat of Çankırı Province and of Çankırı District.İl Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 90,564 (2021). History Çankırı was known in antiquity as Gangra (), and later Germanicopolis (). The city has also been known as Changra, Kandari, Kanghari, or Kangri. Α town of Paphlagonia that appears to have been once the capital of Paphlagonia and a princely residence, for it is known from Strabo that Deiotarus Philadelphus (before 31 BC–5/6 AD), the last king of Paphlagonia, resided there. Notwithstanding th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatice Özgener
Hatice Özgener (1865 – February 21, 1940) was a Turkish school teacher, politician and one of the first 18 female members of the Turkish parliament. Early life Hatice was born to Sheikh Mustafa and his spouse Fatma in Sanjak of Salonica, Ottoman Greece in 1865. She was schooled in the "Red School", and then attended the newly-opened Girls' Secondary School in Thessaloniki. School teacher career Hatice was appointed assistant teacher at the Girls' Secondary School in Thessaloniki, serving at this position from October 1878 to September 1885. End September 1894, she resigned from her assistant teacher post at the Secondary School. In August 1900, she returned to the same school as a teacher and served until end November 1911, in the last months teaching also drawing. Between December 1912 and March 1913, she received special payment from the government due to the occupation of Thessaloniki by Greeks during the First Balkan War in 1912. She served as a teacher of history at sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taksim Square
Taksim Square (, ), situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the central station of the Istanbul Metro network. Taksim Square is also the location of the Republic Monument () which was crafted by Pietro Canonica and inaugurated in 1928. The monument commemorates the 5th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, following the Turkish War of Independence. The square is flanked to the south by The Marmara Hotel, to the east by the Atatürk Cultural Centre, to the north by Gezi Park and to the west by Taksim Mosque. Several major roads converge on the square: Gümüşsuyu Caddesi, Cumhuriyet Caddesi, Tarlabaşı Bulvarı, İstiklal Caddesi and Sıraselviler Caddesi. History The word Taksim means "division" or "distribution" in Arabic. Taksim Square was originally the point where the main water lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics of Turkey, population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest cities in Europe and List of cities proper by population, in the world by population. It is a city on two continents; about two-thirds of its population live in Europe and the rest in Asia. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its area of is coterminous with Istanbul Province. Istanbul's climate is Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean. The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonisation, Greek col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyazit Square
Bayezid (also spelled Beyazıt, Beyazid, Bayazid, Bajazet, Beyazit, Bejazid or Bayazit), an Arabic, Persian, Bengali, Pashto and Turkish name, from the Arabic , meaning "a devoted saint", may refer to: People * Bayazid Bastami (804–874 or 877/78), Persian Sufi * Bayezid I (1360–1403), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402 * Shaikh Bayazid Jalayir, prince and governor of Soltaniyeh, Iran from 1382 to 1384 * Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah (1389–1414), Sultan of Bengal from 1413 to 1414 * Bayezid II (1447–1512), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512 * Bayazid Khan Ansari (b. 1525), Pashtun warrior and poet popularly known as Pir Roshan * Bayazid Khan Karrani (d. 1572), Sultan of Bengal in 1572 * Şehzade Bayezid (1525–1561), son of Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire and his wife Hürrem Sultan * Muhammad Bayazid Khan (1593–1659), Nawab of Malerkotla from 1600 to 1657 * Bayazid Karrani II (died c. 1612), ruler in Sylhet, Bengal * Muhammad Bayazeed Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Türk Kadınlar Birliği
Türk Kadınlar Birliği (Turkish Women's Union) was a women's organization in Turkey, founded in 1924. It was the main women's suffrage organization in Turkey. It played a significant part in the history of the Turkish women's movement. History In 1923, after the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the Women's People Party was founded by Nezihe Muhiddin. However, the party could not be registered, because women's suffrage had not been provided for in the new state. In response, Nezihe Muhiddin founded the Türk Kadınlar Birliği to work for the introduction of women's suffrage. President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was willing to meet most of the demands of the Turkish women's movement, and did so with three major reforms: by inducting women in the state education system along with men; by introducing the Swiss Civil Code of 1926, giving Turkish women the same rights as Swiss women; and finally by introducing women's suffrage in 1935. The organization hosted the Twelfth Conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nezihe Muhiddin
Nezihe Muhiddin Tepedelengil (1889 – 10 February 1958) was a Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader. In the 20th century Ottoman Empire, Nezihe Muhiddin was a pioneer of the women's movement who fought to ensure the recognition of women's political rights after declaration of republican regime. She became one of leading names of the First Wave Republican feminists. Even before the establishment of the Republican People's Party, Nezihe Muhiddin completed the formation of Women's People's Party (KHF) in 1923 and became the founder of the first political party in Turkey. She also served as a president of the Women's Union between 1924 and 1927 and helped the founding process of the journal named ''Turk Kadin Yolu''. She is a writer who has written 20 novels, 300 stories, playings, screenplays, operettas. Life Early life and education She was born in Kandilli, Istanbul in 1889. She's the daughter of a prosecutor and cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aydın
Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar; Greek: Τράλλεις)'' is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of Büyük Menderes River (ancient Meander River) at a commanding position for the region extending from the uplands of the valley down to the seacoast. The city forms the urban part of the Efeler district, with a population of 259,027 in 2022. Aydın city is located along a region which was famous for its fertility and productivity since ancient times. Figs remain the province's best-known crop, although other agricultural products are also grown intensively and the city has some light industry. At the crossroads of a busy transport network of several types, a six-lane motorway connects Aydın to İzmir, Turkey's second port, in less than an hour, and in still less time to the international Adnan Menderes Airport, located along the road between the two cities. A smalle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
