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A very small part of the parliamentary activities such as general assembly sessions and press briefings over a month was concerned with women's rights, shows a report by the Women's Platform for Equality (EŞİK).
Only one law proposal and 10 motions were submitted about women's rights, according to the report covering the period between October 16 and November 15.
Women's rights were not discussed at parties' weekly group meetings other than a meeting of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) that was dedicated to this issue.
Here are other highlights of the report:
At group meetings, the HDP talked about women for 37 minutes, the CHP talked about for 15 seconds and the İYİ (Good) Party talked about for six seconds.
HDP Co-Chair mentioned the EŞİK in the group meeting and said they would fight for women together.
İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener told her parliamentary group that "Let's discuss our women who were subjected to violence, killed and our children who were harassed, raped."