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Thursday 23 Apr 2015 - 12:18 Makkah mean time-4-7-1436
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Brussels (IINA) – A leader of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's women branch said here on Wednesday that Turkey aims to raise standards of women and make them more visible in politics, Anadolu Agency reported.
Meryem Goka, vice chair of Turkey’s incumbent AK Party women branch, which has more than four million members, was one of the women rights experts who gathered at the European Parliament to discuss the political participation and rights of women in Europe and the Muslim world.
"We are working on women’s issues and aim to raise women’s standards and make them more visible in politics," Goka said.
"We want them (women) to be more effectively represented in the elections," she said in reference to the upcoming parliamentary elections in Turkey, scheduled to be held on June 7.
"At least one third of candidates running for Parliament should be women,” she noted.
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, founder and chief executive officer of the Women in Parliament's Global Forum, said: "Turkey can play an important role because of its history, geographic location and due to the fact that it is a bridge between Europe and the Muslim world”.
Turkey is the first country to sign the Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating domestic violence against women. Also, on 12 March 2012, Turkey became the first country to ratify the convention on domestic violence, followed by 16 other countries.
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