THE NEW TURKEY

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 20 March 1924, Page 7

THE NEW TURKEY

GROWTH OF FEMINIST MOVEMENT GIRLS OF EIGHTEEN YEARS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE London, Alarch 18. The Constantinople correspondent of “The Tinies,” says: “Turkish girls of Eighteen arc now eligible to vote in Parliamentary elections. The rights are given them under tho new Constitutional Charter, the first seventeen clauses of which have been passed by the National Assembly. Ono of tho most interesting features of the debate is the indication of the growth of tho feminist movement in Turkey. Article Ten proposed that every Turk on reaching the age of eighteen, should he entitled to vote. It was acknowledged that this applied to women as well as men.. Article Eleven proposed that every Turk, on reaching the age of thirty, should be eligible as Deputy-Champions of women’s rights naturally claimed that they were also included. The doubt was finally removed by the insertion of the word “male.” Nevertheless, there were ma-nv deputies ready to admit women to the same privileges as men, declaring that the resistance to their admission was foolish. In a decade women would certainly be members of the Assembly.—“ The Times.”