Turkish Ruling Party Seeks More Female Leaders
But Prime Minister Opposes Quotas
- The ruling AK, or Justice and Development, in Turkey wants more women involved in local decision making.
- Female representation in local administrations is just 2.32 percent and only 0.56 percent of mayors are women in the country.
- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his party at its Women at Work International Congress to recruit more women at the local level.
- But Erdogan ruled out quotas, saying, “To implement a quota is to put women under the benevolence of men. We have to open the way to qualified women.”
At the same meeting, the Austrian parliamentarian Maria Rauch-Kallat of the European People’s Party said the EPP has a 30 percent quota for female representation. “No one wants a quota for women, but it helps,” Rauch-Kallat told the AK Party women’s conference. “In many levels of our party, female representation is increasing.”
The Today’s Zaman report on the AK Women at Work International Congress
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