Women and Democracy Association

The International Women and Justice Summit, organized every two years by the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) together with the Family and Social Services Ministry, will be held on Nov. 4-5 in Istanbul, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will give the opening speech.

The Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) will organize the third International Women and Justice Summit in cooperation with the family and labor and social services ministries in Istanbul on Nov. 23-24.

First lady Emine Erdoğan and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh alongside a Turkish delegation on Sept. 7. 

"It's impossible not to be effected [by the situation] as a human. May God help them," Erdoğan said after visiting the Kutupalong Camp, housing Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Myanmar since Aug. 25.

Turkey's disaster agency AFAD and the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) have accelerated a project for the social and economic integration of women and children refugees in Turkey.  

Turkey has showed to the entire world that secularism, democracy and Islam can coexist, said Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar, the daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as she attended the 15th annual MAS-ICNA convention, which gathers Muslim communities in the United States, as a guest speaker.

A highly contentious proposal from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) that would have legitimized some forms of child abuse was prepared without the necessary care but will return to parliament after gaining a wide consensus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

It was excellent to see women banding together and making their voices heard on the government's recent child sex abuse bill. They were able to solve part of this issue. But a significant part of it is still there.  

What has been happening in Ankara since Friday, Nov. 18 is unprecedented in the 14-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti).

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has ordered his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to talk to the opposition parties regarding the controversial sexual abuse draft, which is postponed in parliament to Nov. 22.

The prime minister's remarks came almost one hour after Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ spoke to the press to justify the draft.

Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç has said that women's most significant trait was motherhood, adding that women and men "are not equal in all areas."