Women in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

A national history of parliamentary representation of women

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1920
Grand National Assembly of Turkey held its first assembly.
1930
Women's suffrage in local elections went into effect.
1934

Women's suffrage in parliamentary elections went into effect. Here's the share of parliament seats held by women between 1935 and 2015.

You can click/tap on the points to see how the women was represented by each party in the parliament. Women parliamenters will be encircled and emphasized by color.

Due to the number of political parties, it may not be possible easily distinguish the colors. You can move your mouse over the parliament names above for increased emphasis.

2018

On 24th of June parliamentary elections will be held in Turkey to elect 600 parliament members for 27th term of the parliament.


Here are the parliamentary visions of our political parties, in terms of women representation.


AKP

126/600 women

CHP

137/600 women

HDP

228/600 women

IYI

150/600 women

MHP

69/600 women

SP

79/600 women

VP

150/600 women

Historical data presented on this page is scraped from Wikipedia and gender coded manually.
Data on current PM candidates are published by Bianet and summarized by Evrensel.

Created by Oğuzhan Öğreden, using R, d3.js and bulma.io.