VOTE AT EIGHTEEN.
TURKISH FRANCHISE EXTENDED. WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN. By Telegraph—Presa Assn.—Copyright. London, March 18. The Constantinople correspondent of The Times says that Turkish girls of eighteen are now eligible to vote at Parliamentary elections. The rights are given them under the new constitutional charter, the first seventeen clauses of which have passed the National Assembly.
One of the most interesting features of the debate is the indication of the growth of the feminist movement in Turkey. Article 10 proposed that every Turk, on reaching eighteen, should be entitled to vote. It was acknowledged that this applied to women as well as men. Article 11 proposed that every Turk, on reaching 30, should be eligible for the position,of deputy. The champions of women’s rights naturally claimed that they should also be included. Doubt was finally removed by the insertion of the word male. Nevertheless there were many deputies; ready to admit women to the same privileges as men, declaring that resistance to their admission was foolish and that in a decade women would certainly be members of the Assembly.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1924, Page 9
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