Women Deputies in the Parliament after June 24 Elections

The early elections of Turkey ended. Voter turnout was quite high: 26 million 854 thousand and 638 people voted in parliamentary elections and 31 million 199 thousand and 737 people voted in presidential elections.   

After the elections, parliamentary system has been replaced with executive presidency. Deputy number in the Parliament is now 600, not 550. According to unofficial results, 101 of 600 deputies are women.  49 of them are from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP); 18 from Republican People’s Party (CHP), 26 from People’s Democratic Party (HDP), 5 from Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and 3 from İyi Parti. Proportionally HDP has the highest rate; numerically AKP has the highest rate. 33 cities in Turkey do not have women representatives in the Parliament. Only 17% of the deputies in the Parliament are women. It is obvious that gender equality and equal representation were not the cases of these elections. Rumeysa Kadak from AKP and Dersim Dağ from HDP are the youngest women deputies in Parliament.