EQUALITY PROCESS IN TURKEY FROM 1914 TO PRESENT EUROPEAN STUDENTSRESPONSIBLE, MOTIVATED, INTELLIGENT EMOTIONALLY AND USEFULLY
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1914
During the 1st World War, Turkish women achieved to change their duties they undertook to opportunities. It lead up to an EQUALITY environment although it wasn’t based upon laws.
1914
Inas Darülfünun (in Ottoman language university) was founded for the girls to get the university education.
1921
Coeducation started in Darülfünuns (Universities).
1922
Seven girls entered the faculty of medicine and coeducation started there.
ON 29TH OCTOBER, 1923
With the declaration of Turkish Republic, an important step was taken in forming an unprivileged EQUAL community which administers themselves.
ON 29TH OCTOBER, 1923
With the declaration of Turkish Republic, legal and constitutional reforms that enables the women to enter the public fields accelerated.
ON 3RD MARCH, 1924
With the Law of Tevhid-i Tedrisat ( Unification of Education) all the schools were connected to the Ministry of Education and equality of opportunities in education was provided
ON 25TH NOVEMBER,1925
With the HAT LAW, SOCIAL EQAULITY was aimed to remove the differences in clothing due to religious beliefs.
IN 1925
With the outlaw of AŞAR VERGİSİ (TITHE), EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES for the villagers for production was provided. (TAX ACCORDING TO INCOME)
2ND MARCH, 1926
With the law of MAARİF TEŞKİLATI(Education Organization), primary education became free and compulsory.
ON 17TH FEBRUARY, 1926
Turkish Civil Code was accepted and EQUALITY OF WOMEN AND MEN was aimed. ( right for divorce for women, equal heritage, witnessing, civil marriage obligation introduced.) In other words it was tried to provide EQUALITY in social, economical and legal fields.
1ST NOVEMBER 1928
With the adoption of Latin Script (Letter Reform) it was aimed to learn to read and write easily.
24TH NOVEMBER 1928
Literacy drive (Millet Mektepleri) started. The aim was to teach to read and write to the Turkish people. (Equality in education opportunity.)
ON 21ST JUNE, 1934
Every kind of degrees and nicknames were outlawed that means privilege. So, it was aimed to provide social Equality.
IN 1930-1933-1934
Turkish women were given political rights and the Equality principle gained strength.
ON 8TH FEBRUARY,1935
Seventeen women deputies were elected and joined the parliament.
IN 1950
First female mayor was elected from the city of Mersin.
IN 1990
Turkish Civil Code that gives the husband to let his wife to work was cancelled.
IN 1991
The first female governor(Lale Aytaman) was assigned to Muğla.
IN 1993
The first female prime minister of Turkish Republic, Tansu Çiller formed the government.
IN 1997
It was provided that women could use her own surname after the marriage with her husbant’s surname.
IN 2002
Marriage age for both males and females was raised to 18. (It used to be 17 for males, 15 for females)
IN 2002
The ban for the women in public duty to wear trousers was cancelled.
IN 2009
The law to form a male-female equality commission became valid in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
IN 2010
With the new social regulations, “the principle of positive privilege” was adopted.
IN 2011
New regulations for the women’s maternity leave were formed.
ON 30TH MAY, 2012
Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey was founded attached to the Ministry of Law. It became valid in 2016 and the study to protect and develop human rights, prevent discrimination and to eliminate the violation has been going on. In this sense, the goal is to inform the society using mass media and to develop the sensitivity in society via education.
IN 2013
Legal obstacles for the female deputies to enter the Turkish Grand National Assembly were removed.
Most of all these equality studies were carried out by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who is the founder and former president of Turkey. Therefore, we are grateful to him. We always remember him with a deep missing and respect.
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