“The hearts of those fascists, from the autocratic era, were not moved even by tears of women not allowed into schools and workplaces,” stated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday as he spoke about injustices towards girls prior to now.
He was addressing the Women’s Labor Summit, organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), an occasion that commemorates the celebration’s efforts to extend girls’s employment throughout the nation.
The president hailed reforms for girls by the AK Party, which helped the nation overcome what he described as “Those days of oppression in opposition to girls.” He was referring to a course of earlier than and after the infamous 1997 coup, a time of suppression of ladies’s rights and the outlawing of the headband. Erdoğan himself was a sufferer of the method, going through political oppression moreover being pressured to take away his youngsters from college.
“You remember what one of those former leaders told a lawmaker in a headscarf as she was taking the oath? He told other lawmakers she should show her real worth. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) is associated with this mindset. Do you dare to show lawmakers their worth now?” stated the president to thunderous applause. He was referring to an notorious incident in 1999 the place Merve Kavakçı, who could be Türkiye’s first headscarf-wearing lawmaker, confronted strict opposition from then-Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, who made the controversial remarks throughout a parliamentary session as Kavakçı ready to take oath for workplace.
The president hailed girls’s position in AK Party’s victories for the reason that early 2000s and stated that any political motion excluding girls is doomed to vanish from the political scene. He additionally spoke a few constitutional modification on headscarves. The predominant opposition, the CHP, revived the problem of headscarves earlier this month, asserting deliberate laws amid efforts by the secularist celebration to succeed in out to conservative Turks, amongst whom the CHP has historically had little help. The CHP seeks an modification for permitting girls in headscarves to work freely within the public sector, years after the AK Party, beneath Erdoğan, had lifted the ban. “This reminded us of the bad old days. We proposed to them to bring a constitutional amendment to the table, but nobody replied to our proposal. So, we presented the proposal to Parliament by ourselves,” Erdoğan stated.
