Human rights in Turkey in the Zaza language. There were plans to broadcast in Armenian as well. In the 1930s, Turkey became one of the first countries in the world to give full political rights to women, including the right to elect and be elected locally (in 1930) and nationwide (in 1934). Therefore, the Constitution was amended. Article 10 of the Turkish Constitution bans any discrimination, state or private, on the grounds of sex. Turkey elected a female prime minister, Tansu Çiller in 1995. It is also the first country which had a woman, Tülay Tuğcu, as the President of its Constitutional Court. In
Mümtaz'er Türköne the ex-husband of former AKP deputy Özlem Türköne. Mümtaz'er Türköne Mümtaz'er Türköne, (born 1956 in Istanbul), is a Turkish academic and author. He was a faculty member at Gazi University from 1993 to 2007 and is a columnist for the "Zaman" and its English-language sister "Today's Zaman". In the 1990s Türköne was a member of the "Analitik Grubu" group of advisors to Prime Minister Tansu Çiller. In January 2012 Türköne resigned from the Atatürk Culture, Language and History Institution, a month after being appointed by President Abdullah Gül. His appointment had been criticised as Türköne had previously described Atatürkism as