Number of women in Turkish parliament reaches record high

The number of women MPs in the Turkish parliament of the 28th convocation will be a record-high for the entire history of Türkiye, Report informs via Anadolu Agency.

According to the preliminary results of the May 14 elections in Türkiye, 121 out of 600 elected members for the new supreme legislative body are women.

So, the number of women in the Turkish parliament rose to 20.1%, while in the previous parliament, this figure was 17.1%.

The largest number of women parliamentarians entered the parliament from the Green Party. This is followed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti), the Republican People's Party (CHP), the İYİ (Good) Party and the Nationalist Movement Party.

Thus, from the Justice and Development Party, 50 women will sit in the new parliament, from the CHP and the Green Party - 30 each, the İYİ Party - 6, the Nationalist Movement Party - 4, the Workers' Party of Türkiye - one.

Also, 50 out of 267 new deputies in the faction of the Justice and Development Party are women. Thus, the proportion of women deputies from the ruling party increased to 18.7%, while in the parliament of the 27th convocation, the figure was 17.9%.

Of the 61 MPs from the Green Party, 30 women (49%) are represented in parliament, which is the highest figure compared to other parties.

Out of 169 deputies from the Republican People's Party, 30 women (17%) are going to be in the new parliament. Whereas the share of women in the parliament of the 27th convocation accounted for 12.2%.

At the same time, the level of representation of women from the Nationalist Movement Party decreased from 10% to 8%. Only four women out of 50 deputies from this political force are represented in the new parliament.

This indicator for the İYİ Party increased from 6.9% to 13.7%. The new parliament includes six women out of 44 deputies.

In the 28th parliament, women from 31 out of 81 provinces will not be represented in parliament.

The proportion of women deputies in the Turkish Parliament began to grow since 2007 (550 women), when the figure was 9.1%, in 2011 - 14.3%, in 2015 (June 7) - 17.6%, in 2015 (November 1) - 14.7%, and in the parliament of the 27th convocation, where the number of deputy mandates increased to 600, up to 17.1%.