Güldal Akşit

Güldal Akşit (pronounced [ɟyɫdaɫ ˈakʃit]; born January 23, 1960 in Malatya, Turkey) was a Turkish politician and the President of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women.[1] She was elected as a member of parliament for Istanbul in 2002 and re-elected in 2007.[2] She was the Minister of Culture and Tourism[3] in the cabinet of Abdullah Gül and the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Akşit was the head of the AKP women's branch[3] and interested in women's rights.[4]

She graduated from the Hacettepe University and Istanbul University's Faculty of Law.[5]

References
  1. "Eski Bakan Güldal Akşit panelde uykuya direnemedi". Milliyet. 7 November 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2010. Eski Devlet Bakanı ve TBMM Kadın ve Erkek Fırsat Eşitliği Komisyonu Başkanı Güldal Akşit [Former state minister and chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women Güldal Akşit]
  2. "İstanbul 2007 Genel Seçimi Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. Culbertson, Shelly (2016-04-19). The Fires of Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East - Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia. St. Martin's Publishing Group. pp. 105-106. ISBN 978-1-4668-7495-4.
  4. Yavuz, M. Hakan; Yavuz, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science M. Hakan (2006-05-29). The Emergence of a New Turkey: Islam, Democracy, and the AK Parti. University of Utah Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-87480-863-6.
  5. "AK PARTİ". www.akparti.org.tr. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
Political offices
Preceded by
Mustafa Taşar		 Minister of Culture and Tourism
November 18, 2002– Mart 14, 2003		 Succeeded by
Erkan Mumcu


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