Emine Özcan

Articles de cet auteur (3)

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  Parties have used and then dropped women

  30 March 2009

  In their pre-election campaigns political parties have not hesitated to manipulate the symbolism of veiled and unveiled women and use women in other ways. The actual representation of women on party lists is embarrassingly low.
  In the whole of Turkey, there are 18 female mayors, and only one of them is mayor in a province capital. The number has not changed over two local elections, that is since 1999. This means that the percentage of women among all of the 3,225 mayors of Turkey is 0.6 (...)

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  Turquie : les femmes ont perdu les prochaines élections municipales

  13 mars 2009

  La plupart des partis politiques ont maintenant présenté leurs candidats pour les élections municipales du 29 mars prochain. La part des femmes n’y dépasse pas les 5%.
  L’Association pour la défense et l’éducation des Femmes (KA-DER) relève que seules 18 femmes seront tête de liste pour le parti de la Justice et du Développement (AKP). Le Parti du Mouvement Nationaliste (MHP), extrême droite, en présente 35, le Parti Républicain du Peuple (CHP), le principal parti d’opposition, 46, le Parti Démocrate (...)

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  Turkish Journalists do not Believe In The Freedom Of The Press

  6 May 2008

  Journalists do not draw a picture of a “contemporary” country, when it comes to the freedom of the press and the way the journalists are treated in Turkey.
  Today is the World Press Freedom Day…Bianet interviewed journalists from local and national media. While Mete Çubukçu from NTV points out that “This year May Day spoke for May 3 World Press Freedom Day in Turkey by the way the journalists were treated”, Erkan Çapraz of Yüksekovahabercom, who is under investigation for Article 301, says that (...)