Lale Aytaman

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Governor Lale Aytaman is attending the district governorship visit of President Turgut Özal (right). Kavaklıdere, Muğla, August 16, 1991.

Dr. Lale Aytaman (born 1944) was the governor of Muğla province in Turkey from 1991 to 1995 and the first female governor of Turkey.

Education

Lale Aytaman finished

Ph.D
.

Career

She was a professor at

University of Mugla, Turolian Park, and Iassos Museum
were opened during her governorship.

She was head of the Turkish delegation to the Congress for Local and Regional Authorities of Council of Europe in 1995 when she was elected as an

MP from the province of Muğla. She was a member of the Motherland Party (ANAP) and a member of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and Western European Union
.

She became the first Turkish parliamentarian at the Council of Europe who was elected as President of a Committee. She was president of the Committee for Environment, local and regional authorities. She prepared together with Sir John Hunt, the "Black Sea Report" at the WEU.[1]

She is an honorary member of the Council of Europe.[citation needed]

References

  1. Turkish Daily News. Archived from the original
    on 2008-11-15.
Sources