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Addressing a letter to political parties in Turkey, the Women’s Coalition has stressed that women worked for all legal regulations, conventions and mechanisms related to gender equality and underlined that “a new Constitution is a must.”

Several predecessors of both the ruling AKP and the HDP, which is facing closure now, had been shut down throughout the history of the Republic.

Kadın Koalisyonu, a women’s right organization, released a report revealing the number of female candidates assigned by political parties in the upcoming municipal elections. The percentage of female mayor candidates were listed as follows: AKP and MHP (1%), CHP (4%) and BDP (17%).