Founding W20 Chair, 2015
The Third Eurasian Women’s Forum was held on 13-15 October 2021 in Saint Petersburg. The slogan of the forum was “Women: A Global Mission in a New Reality.” Even this theme implies change. I believe that we are already going through a period of change, and we shall all be…
Elena Bonetti, Italian Minister of Equal Opportunities and Family hosted a first time ever G20 conference for the Ministers of the respective countries of the world who are engaged in gender on August 26, 2021, in Santa Margherita Ligure Italy. Elena Bonetti was born in 1974 and she had obtained her…
Hand in hand for women now! The Impact of the Pandemic on Women Firstly, few facts from the introduction: Covid is costing women their jobs. Women account for 39% of the global employment but it is estimated that during the pandemic women will suffer 54% of the global job losses.…
Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the IMF, made an encouraging speech for the W20 delegates of the W20 and hence all the women. She also encouraged all the countries to cooperate with the IMF to design programs and policies that women can benefit in their respective countries. Kristalina Georgieva…
In 2014 G20 countries signed to decrease the gap between inclusion of men and women by 25%. One of the gaps in inclusion of women occurs in digital inclusion area. I have below paper from young and promising graduate students at the International school of Geneva, LGB. I hope you…
Please click to read the full article about Gülden Türktan published in the diplomatic world magazine. Date: 23.07.2020
The politicians and the business leaders needed to make their decisions for precautions for Covid-19 quite fast and apply it immediately in their countries and organizations, respectively. Lately most well-known truth has become the fact that Covid-19 crisis disproportionately affects women. Women’s roles as medical staff and care givers or…
On January 26, 2020 I went to Riyadh to attend the Inception and Kickoff Meeting of the W20 meeting series of Saudi Arabia, where the G20 presidency this year lies. It was a first time ever for me to Riyadh and I frankly didn’t know what to expect. For most…
The G20 countries signed to close their respective gender gap by 25 % until 2025 in 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. This year is 2020 and mid term measure of this gap. WEF Gender Gap Report recently issued give some good news but also points out that we need to work…
On the weekend of October 29, 2019, we were in Luxembourg on a trip organized by the Honorary Consul of Luxembourg in Izmir, a dear friend Feyhan Yaşar. Luxembourg is a small, very beautiful and tidy country. Food was scrumptious and relatively reasonably priced. Wherever you look, there are both…
For those of you who have been saying “where have you been? We haven’t seen you lately! The answer is as follows: I have made 21 International trips to the nicest cities in the world, most of them invited as a speaker or a participant! Thank you for the patience…
Every year G20 is hosted by one country and this year the presidency of the G20 resides with Japan. The G20 Leaders’ Summit shall take place on June 28 and 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. The Summit for the women outreach group of the G20, W20 – Women 20 was…
I was a speaker at the Asian Leadership Conference. I was delighted to be there. Almost every speaker I had a chance to listen said the same thing. They were happy to be there, and I believe it was not a cliché, but people were happy to be in Seoul.…
This year the meeting was opened by the Executive Director of UN Women and the meeting started with songs while Secretary General was entering the Townhall. The auditorium was full of representatives of many countries with their colorful outfits. KAGIDER (Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey) was at the meeting with…
