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]
Biography
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]