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
K. S. Maniam K. S. Maniam Subramaniam Krishnan (born 1942), popularly known as K. S. Maniam, is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist. K. S. Maniam has been writing from his early teens. His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, "The Return", was published in 1981 and the second, "In a Far Country", in 1993. He won the first prize for "The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for "Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–Shell contest (1990). He is the inaugural recipient of