Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan

The Interparliamentary Union (IPU) and Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) will launch a regional report on sexism, harassment and violence against women lawmakers and personnel within European parliaments in January 2018, PACE General Rapporteur on violence against women Gülsün Bilgehan has stated.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Gülsün Bilgehan has criticized Turkey's record on women's rights with a report on the third anniversary of the Istanbul Convention. 

The 34th Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, kicked off on April 4 with a concert by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) at the MEB Şura Hall in Ankara. 

To mark the 110th birth year of late composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun, who served as an adviser to the foundation's executive board, the orchestra played his "Ayin Raksı" piece.  

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed educational policy amendments envisioning the removal of the founder leaders of Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and İsmet İnönü from the curriculum. 

Turkey's new draft national education curriculum aims to "protect national values," Education Ministry Undersecretary Yusuf Tekin said Jan. 15, amid claims that the curriculum devalues Turkey's founding fathers. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's suggestion that the Treaty of Lausanne, which largely gave Turkey its present borders instead of the rump state envisioned in the Treaty of Sèvres, was "presented as a victory" has drawn an angry reaction from the Republican People's Party (CHP).

?smail Kahraman, the Istanbul deputy from the ranks of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been elected as the new parliament speaker in the third round of the voting on Nov 22. 

Having begun working to form an interim government that will act until snap elections scheduled for Nov. 1, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has eventually sent letters of proposals to deputies of opposition parties, asking them to take part in the government.

It's been a year since the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty of the Council of Europe (CoE) dedicated to preventing and combating general and domestic violence against women. Although the convention entered into force Aug. 1, 2014, the country has failed to take steps on this road.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara deputy Gülsün Bilgehan, has been elected as Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, becoming the first Turkish politician ever to be selected to the top post for a second time.