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Considering the countries where human rights are regarded as indispensable values, the understanding that women should be equal with men in enjoying all rights that will enable their participation in the political, economic,cultural and social sphere is prevalent. Although this understanding is included in human rights documents/international convention and even in the legislation of countries, regardless of their level of it is seen that quality in the context of gender still hasn’t been achieved in term of working life, education representation in political life. This problem makes itself felt much more in the political sphere, especially in the context of representation in local politics. In this regard, the purpose of is study to examine the situation of “insufficient local representation of women" in the example of Trabzon in our country within the scope of the March 31, 2019 Local Administrations Elections. The descriptive analysis method used for the results of the 31 March 2019 Local Administrations Elections/results of the province of Trabzon were presented by means of the data announced by the Supreme Election Board. Female participation and representation rates were examined in the context of ‘candidate’ and ‘election’ criteria for membership, particularly for metropolitan municipality, central and district mayors, municipal councils and provincial councils. As a result of the study, women's representation at the ‘candidate’ level at the metropolitan and district mayoral level was 22.2% to 1%; but there was no representation in the context of ‘elected’. It was found that women's representation at the ‘candidate’ level was 11.72%, 7.05%; women's representation at the ‘elected’ level was 7.05%, 4.35%. The argument that women experience “invisibility/status of absence” and they are simply attributed a “symbolic value” has been confirmed by the data from the example of Trabzon province. It has been suggested that the problem in question will be overcome with the existence of mechanisms to change the representation of women as “formal and qualitative”.

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