- Nimet Çubukçu
Nimet Çubukçu is a Minister of State of
Turkey , responsible for women, and a member of parliament for Istanbul of the rulingAdalet ve Kalkınma Partisi .She has been Minister of State since 2003 and has had to deal with a number of issues including:
* scandalous treatment of patients in women's refuges and orphanages, from neglect to girl orphans involved in prostitution, to physical assault bordering on torture of children.
* The events led to criticism of the lack of female staff and inpectors in these institutions, and subsequently to calls for Çubukçu's resignation. Instead of which we got the minister on the front pages of newspapers visiting orphanages and posing for photo-opportunities with the poor children.ayings and statements
* "In the
Ruanda n parliament 54% of members are women, but can you claim that Ruanda is a democratic society, that women's rights there are more advanced?" [ [http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?viewid=617571 Hürriyet - -Cinnah fısıltıları ] ]
* "my informants are the children" - (following theMalatya Orphanage scandal and criticism that there was not enough inspection of these institutions).References
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