The Women's Platform for Equality (EŞİK) issued a written statement regarding the candidate lists of the political parties that will enter the elections. Emphasizing that the lists of candidates submitted to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) by the political parties that will enter the elections on 14 May are far from equal representation, the statement said: "Although there are many female candidates who disprove the claim that women do not want to enter politics, still very few women were included in the lists."

Women put in places where they could hardly be elected

Noting that the majority of the women included in the lists were placed in constituencies where they could hardly be elected, the statement said: “The proportion of women was artificially high. Still, there is not a single political party that uses the zipper method to achieve gender equality. In the lists, the zipper system was used not to increase the number of women, but to equalize the number of deputies between parties.”

‘Equal representation should be made a constitutional obligation’

The statement continued: “In the first constitutional amendment, the principle of equal representation in all elections and appointments should be made a constitutional obligation. Under-representation lists should be rejected by election boards. Appointments that violate the principle of equality should be revoked. Equal representation is essential. We will fight until we have equal representation with legal guarantees.”