Women fail to make big gains in local Turkish polls
Yesterday [April 1] our newspaper published the list of women mayors elected in the local elections, according to preliminary results. I managed to add several names to the list after poring over vote totals from various provinces. The figures I came up with do not represent the official results. The number of female mayors elected in small rural constituencies may still be incomplete. Yet the existing figures, I think, allow us to make an overall assessment.
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