WOMEN REPRESENTATIVE IN TURKISH POLITICS: THE ANALYSIS OF 24 JUNE 2018 ELECTIONS
TÜRK SİYASETİNDE KADIN TEMSİLİ: 24 HAZİRAN 2018 SEÇİMLERİ İNCELEMESİ

Author : Hediye Şirin AK
Number of pages : 362-376

Abstract

Politics, power and rulership are concepts that have emerged with the formation of early societies and have been influential in human relations and social order from that day to today. Politics is a network of social relations that is largely active and complex and there is a direction that encompasses all the individuals connected to a state with the link of citizenship. Democracy discourses rising in the 21st century have brought to the world agenda that the political sphere comprises all of individuals and groups without distinction therefore should include a pluralistic structure. We confronted when we examine the political sphere in terms of fulfilling the requirements of democracy, it is the fact we confronted that the women who constitute the half of the world population are being excluded from politics. One of the highest rates of discrimination has been made by politics that should embrace all individuals and groups emerge as the gender discrimination. In Turkey like all over the world, women are exposed to discrimination in the political arena and there is a problem of not being represented sufficiently. When we look at the history of winning women's electoral elections in the world, we can see that Turkish women achieved this right at an early date. However, when we look at the point where the Turkish woman arrives in 2018, the situation that is encountered in politics is that women representations are below the world average. In this research, which will be tried to determine the point of the women's representation in Turkish politics in 2018, an analysis of the political representation of women in Turkish politics will be tried by comparing the recent June-November 2015 and June 2018 elections.

Keywords

Political participation and women, Gender and politics, Women and politics, 24 June 2018 Elections.

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