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
The Economist editorial stance be able to rectify what it saw as a drift away from the United States by Europe. This is exemplified by one July 1962 editorial: The veto of the UK's entry, by Charles de Gaulle, in 1963 provoked an outraged response from "The Economist", which in its editorials predicted the unravelling of European institutions. It also recommended an idea that it had supported in earlier years, that of an Atlantic Community, both economic and military. Soon after the veto, "The Economist"'s stance on the status of the UK as a dominant world power began to change. One milestone in this