"No Women, No Europe
Soner Çağaptay/Rueya Perinçek
The first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, is a known opponent of Turkey’s EU membership. Mr. Van Rompuy may find it easy to stick to his position: seven years after the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, rose to power in Ankara, Turkey is sliding away from European liberal democratic norms, including gender equality. Under the AKP, Turkish women are barred from power and are nonexistent in the executive levels of the bureaucracy."
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