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
Philippe Michel (economist) Philippe Michel (economist) Philippe Michel (October 6, 1937 – July 22, 2004) was a French mathematical economist. Philippe Michel earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Paris VI in 1972, and became a Professor of Mathematics in 1976 at the University of Paris I. In 1993, he joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Aix-Marseille II at GREQAM. Philippe Michel first scientific contributions were in the field of mathematics, with a focus on optimal control theory. As the methods developed in this field are important tools used in economics, Philippe Michel progressively entered into this field.