Güldal Akşit (pronounced [ɟyɫdaɫ ˈakʃit]; 23 January 1960 – 3 December 2021) was a Turkish politician and the President of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women. [1]
Güldal Akşit was born in Malatya on 23 January 1960. [2] Her father was a politician, Galip Demirel. [2] She attended the Foreign Languages School of Hacettepe University. [2] Then she graduated from Istanbul University's Faculty of Law. [3]
She was elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Istanbul, and served from 2002 to 2011. [4] She was the minister of culture and tourism [5] in the cabinet of Abdullah Gül and in the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Akşit was the head of the AKP women's branch [5] and interested in women's rights. [6]
Akşit was married and had no children. [2] She died from COVID-19 in Ankara on 3 December 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. She was 61. [7] She is buried at Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara. [8]
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]