I personally do not know to what degree the women in Refah wanted to become candidates in the elections. I haven't looked into that. But I want to say that our association somehow has always had good relations with opposition parties but when they have come to power, disagreements have started. It has been the same case with Refah. We had many disagreements when that party came to power.
Double standards hold true for all.
All have this double standard unfortunately. Therefore whenever we brought up human rights violations when Refah was in power, pro-Refah newspapers wouldn't even print that news. But none of the newspapers, including the one Goktepe was working for, gave any place to our association's reaction. Only the daily Cumhuriyet covered our reaction, and how, we don't still know. Our biggest problem is that the public doesn't know us very well.