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Copyright Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History Spring 2014

Abstract

Modernisation process in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic includes important structural differences which also affected the status of women. In Turkey women acquired the right to participate in local elections in 1930. Afterwards, they were given the right to participate in general elections in 1934. Despite those legal arrangements the representation of women both in national and local administration remained lower than the expected. The number of women deputies in the National Assembly remained very low as well. The first woman provincial mayor was elected twenty years later than the concerning legal arrangements. In a period when important steps for democratisation process were taken, Müfide Ilhan, was elected as the first woman mayor from the Mersin province, where the Democrat Party won the 1950 elections. Thus, this study aims to evaluate Müfide Ilhan's election as a mayor, her activities in the office as well as her resignation within the perspective of womens' participation to political life in Turkey.

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Title
Türkiye'nin Ilk Kadin Il Belediye Baskani 'Müfide Ilhan' ve Mersin'deki Çalismalari
Author
Bozkurt, Birgül; Bozkurt, Ibrahim
Pages
51-75
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Spring 2014
Publisher
Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
ISSN
13051458
e-ISSN
21471592
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Turkish
ProQuest document ID
1544369979
Copyright
Copyright Hacettepe University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History Spring 2014