Accession of Turkey to the European Union Council of State and Cumhuriyet newspaper, the assassination of several Christian missionaries and Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, as well as allegedly plotting the assassination of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Turkey gave women the right to vote in 1930 for municipal elections. In 1934 this right was expanded for the national elections, while women were also given the right to become elected as MPs in the Turkish Parliament, or for being appointed as Ministers, Prime Minister, Speaker of the Parliament and President of the Republic. In 1993 Tansu Çiller became the first female Prime Minister of Turkey. In its second report
Joseph Francois (economist) modeling) as well as the role of regional agreements and the multilateral system in reducing economic policy uncertainty. He also writes on current international economic policy. He was an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1983-87. He then moved to the US International Trade Commission, where from 1987-1993 he started as a research economist and later became Chief of Research, and then Acting Director of Economics with the USITC. While at the USITC he was co-director of the 1992 USITC assessment of the NAFTA, He was a research economist with the GATT/WTO from 1993-1996, where he coordinated