TURKISH WOMEN VOTE
17 ELECTED
Turkish women went to the polls fdr the first time in a General Election last year, wherein they were not merely voters' but also stood as candidates for the Grand National Assembly, states an exchange. And the result has not disappointed Turkish women's expectations: among the 383 members of Parliament returned by the Popular Party were 17 women! This event —though it does not mark a new departure, but, what is more, the general trend of the present Turkish Government to let women partake, on equal terms With' men, in the progressive development of their country—will be greeted with much satisfaction by women the world over, most of all by those in Eastern countries, as another drastic break with that Oriental past which still puts so many obstacles in the way of their progress.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 13
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139TURKISH WOMEN VOTE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 13
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