Fatma Şahin is a Turkish chemical engineer and politician. On 6 July 2011 she was appointed as the Minister of Family and Social Policies in the third cabinet of Erdoğan.
Fatma Şahin at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa, and Eurasia in 2012
The Justice and Development Party, abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey. It has been the ruling party of Turkey since 2002. Third-party sources often refer to
Fatma Şahin
…Fatma Şahin worked as an engineer and manager in the textile industry. She entered politics together with her husband İzzet Şahin and co-founded the Justice and Development Party. Taking active part in the provincial organization, she was elected three times deputy from her hometown. She is the first female member of the Turkish…
The Republic Protests took place in 2007 in support of the Kemalist reforms, particularly state secularism and democracy, against the perceived Islamization of Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party.
A rally of the Justice and Development Party in 2007
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