Today in 1934, Turkish women won the right to vote and stand for electoral office through a constitutional amendment
Today in 1934, Turkish women won the right to vote and stand for electoral office through a constitutional amendment
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“Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?”
(Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
If you ever feel useless remember that there are people going to vote in Turkey
Or russia
Downvote me as much as you want
Putin and Erdogan only will leave their office in a coffin.
And there sre gonna be others to come…
dekades before Switzerland ;P
A Turkey post in r/Europe. Time to put on my hazard suit, flak vest and kevlar helmet.
I though it was Queen of UK for a while.
I thought it was Eleanor Roosevelt for a sec
The radical nature of this cannot be overstated. In this era it was crazy for Europeans to do this, and here we had Muslim women doing this.
11 years before us. And if our then-leaders followed their own opinion instead of communist dogma, our women would get the right to vote even later.
People are taking all this for granted nowadays.
Always surprising to read that France, often the vanguard of this sort of thing in Europe and Ataturk’s inspiration, only gave women the right to vote 10 years after Turkey.
For the love of ~~God~~ Ataturk, someone help that poor miniature man out of the ballot box!
The question is, will it last until 2034?
Actually thought that was a photo of Queen Elizabeth.
I think the most of opinions and views regarding Turkey depend on prejudices and ignorance. You should realize the territorial differences in the country. In the west Turkey , there is always so few problems for women rights ,and it is way more developed than many countries.