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12th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance took place at the Şale Kiosk

The 12th Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was an international women's conference which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in 18-25 April 1935. It was the 12th international conference arranged under the International Alliance of Women.

The conference was held under the chairmanship of Margery Corbett Ashby, the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and hosted by the Türk Kadinlar Birligi under its president Latife Bekir, who had requested and received permission from the government, and was held at the Yildiz Kiosk, belonging to a residence of the former Ottoman sultan.[1] The delegates where housed at the Hotel Tokatlian.

The principal themes of the conference were stated to be:

During the conference, the fact that Turkey had recently introduced women's suffrage was celebrated by the International Alliance of Women, and after the Conference, the women's organization Türk Kadinlar Birligi was dissolved by its president Latife Bekir, who declared that Turkey had now reached its goal in the issue of women's rights, after which the Turkish women's movement was inducted into the ruling government party.[3]

References

  1. ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32828341
  2. ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32828341
  3. ^ Gingeras, R. (2019). Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Atatürk. Storbritannien: Oxford University Press.
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