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Turkey seeks to improve women’s status in politics – Through the Means of Secular Capitalism which Humiliated Women. Meryem Göka, vice chair of Turkey’s incumbent AK Party women branch, which has more than four million members, was one of the women rights experts gathered at the European Parliament to discuss the political participation and rights of women in Europe and the Muslim world. “We are working on women’s issues and aim to raise women’s standards and make them more visible in politics,” Göka said. “We want them (women) to be more effectively represented in the (upcoming June) elections,” she added. “At least one third of the Member of Parliament candidates should be women,” she said.

Comment:

In 2011, the number of female deputy candidates was 268 in total from all four parties, but for the upcoming June elections the number has nearly doubled to 528 with the AK Party including 99 women, the HDP has listed 268, the CHP 103 and the MHP has listed 58 female deputy candidates. Especially well-known names who were all victims of the February 28 postmodern coup like lawyer Fatma Benli, Dr. Leyla Şahin Usta and Ravza Kavakçı, are among the most prominent figures on the AK Party’s candidates list. Also the HDP (pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party) can trump with a famous February 28 name, Hüda Kaya.

Turkey promises to raise standards of women through making them more visible in politics – the secular democratic capitalist politics imposed on the women of this Ummah after the removal of the Islamic ruling, the Khilafah. However; all the humiliation that women endured during these last 90 years of capitalist secular democratic ruling were caused by the very same man-made system. Who can talk better about this than the new prominent candidates of AKP and HDP? Especially, if they want to make efforts for the rights and living standards of women in Turkey, they should also see clearly that removing the hijab ban in public, granting women more political rights and similar may have changed the general picture of appearance in Turkey but have not contributed in any way to the well-being of the majority of Turkey’s women. Increased rates of violence against women, femicides, increased levels of prostitution, as well as more women working under unacceptable conditions in bad paid jobs, and more, are not only discussed in Turkey but across the world. Every democratic secular state has the same illnesses in the same increasing levels. So the root of the problem is surely not a lack of women in politics, but the way of politics that abuses women in order to prolong this capitalist system’s existence. As long this failed, corrupt, man-made system is not removed from its roots there will not change anything for the women neither in Turkey nor anywhere else in the Muslim world. This system has to be replaced by Islam as it was defined by the Lord of The Worlds, where politics is made according the Qur’an and Sunnah, and where women are an important part of ensuring the God given rights and duties for the women, the men and the children and the whole Islamic State. Only than women’s rights and status will flourish again as it did in the past under the rule of the Islamic Khilafah State.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Zehra Malik