The first female peasant deputy: Satı Kadın

Turkey in the long years of struggle by women to achieve their political rights, they managed to enter parliament in the general elections held February 8, 1935. In the 5th term elections, where women voted for the first time, 17 women MPs entered the parliament for the first time. Most of the Fifth Term female MPs who entered the parliament were women with higher education and professions. Unlike them, Satı Kadın was a farmer, a laborer woman with six children. She was one of the first women mukhtars of our country who took over her seal when her father died. Satı Kadın was one of our Anatolian peasant women. Satı woman appeared before Atatürk as a brave symbol of Turkish peasant woman. In the parliamentary elections in February of 1935, the selecting Ankara deputy, has taken its place as the first peasant women deputies in parliament in Turkey. Satı Kadın worked in the agriculture commission in the parliament between 1935 and 1939, and took part in every attempt to provide modern agricultural tools and equipment to the villagers, to bring roads, water, health and education services to the villages. With the spirit of the Anatolian woman, she helped all women who came to the parliament. During his deputy in Ankara, he lived in a village house, hosted people from his village, and dealt with the problems of his villagers, so that they would not say "Satı's nose has grown."