Women got full political participation rights in Turkey, including the right to vote and the right to run for officelocally in 1930. Article 10 of the Turkish Constitution bans any discrimination, state or private, on the grounds of sex. It is the first country to have a woman as the President of its Constitutional Court. Article 41 of the Turkish Constitution reads that the family is "based on equality between spouses".

Müfide İlhan was a Turkish politician. She was the mayor of Mersin in the early 1950s and is known as being the first woman mayor in Turkey.