page_title: Women in government
section_title: Turkey
hierarchical_section_title: Women in government / Case studies / Turkey
caption_attribution_description: Özal inspecting a local governor. The ceremony marking of the beginning of governance for the first Kaymakam Eyüp Sabri Kartal in Kavaklıdere, with President Turgut Özal and Vali Lale Aytaman. Kaymakamlığı ziyaret eden Özal ve Kaymakam Eyüp Sabri Kartal'ın (16 Ağustos 1991) de ilk görevine başlama törenine iştiraki "sivil cumhurbaşkanından sivil yönetime destek" olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Özal, her zaman sivil yönetimi savunmuş ve halk tipi sivil kıyafetlerden hoşlanmıştır. Kamu kurum ve kuruluşlarını resmi kıyafetiyle ziyaret eden diğer Cumhurbaşkanlarından farklı olarak çoğu defa kravatsız, keten pantolon, keten ayakkabı ve tişörtle resmi programlara katılmıştır. Yukarıdaki resimde görüldüğü gibi üst rutbeli askerlerin devir teslim törenine katılmazken, küçük bir ilçede kaymakamın göreve başlama törenine katılmıştır. Askeri birlikleri şortla denetlemesi medya tarafından şiddetle eleştirilmiştir. Özal diğer Cumhurbaşkanları gibi konuklarını köşkte ağırlamak yerine, Marmaris Okluk koyundaki resmi yazlıkta ağırlamıştır. Ölümünde sivil cumhurbaşkanı, demokrat cumhurbaşkanı, dindar cumhurbaşkanı pankartlarıyla da bu tutumu desteklenmiştir.
context_page_description: Women in government are underrepresented in most, if not all, countries worldwide. In many countries, women have had inadequate opportunities in social participation, especially in striving for political rights and power in the government and different institutions. This historical tendency still persists, although women are increasingly being elected to be heads of state and government.
  As of October 2019, the global participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is 24.5%. In 2013, women accounted for 8% of all national leaders and 2% of all presidential posts. Furthermore, 75% of all female prime ministers and presidents have taken office in the past two decades.
  Women may face a number of challenges that affect their ability to participate in political life and become political leaders. Several countries are exploring measures that may increase women's participation in government at all levels, from the local to the national. However, more and more women are pursuing leadership positions in the present day.
context_section_description: Tansu Çiller, a career professor of economics since 1983, entered politics in November 1990, joining the conservative True Path Party (DYP). On June 13, 1993, she was elected the party's leader, and on 25 June the same year, Çiller was appointed the Prime Minister of a coalition government, becoming Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. She served at this post until 6 March 1996.
  Prime Minister office abolished in Turkey in 2018.
  However, since 1995, the number of women in the parliament has been continually on the rise. Female representation rate did not fall below 10 percent after the 2007 elections.
  Turkey's first female governor Lale Aytaman.  Aytaman, who served as the governor of Muğla between 1991-1995, was appointed to this position by President Turgut Özal. Meanwhile, Turkey's first female district governor is Özlem Bozkurt Gevrek. She served in the Orta district of Çankırı in 1995. After these years, the number of female governors and district governors increased rapidly.
caption: Lale Aytaman is first female Governor of Turkey.
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