National consultation meeting of W20 which KADEM is one of the committee members has been conducted on 11 September.

National consultation meeting of W20 which is being organized for the first time in Turkey has been conducted in İstanbul. Committee members of W20, committee president Gülden Türktan, MP for İstanbul Ravza Kavakçı Kan, lawyer Kezban Hatemi, a number of women who take part in economics and decision making mechanisms and businesspeople have participated in the event.

The event has started with opening speeches of the committee members and continued with debates on priority policy areas of W20. The priority areas have been discussed on roundtables. At the end of the roundtable discussions, the moderators have presented their solutions and proposals about the issue to all groups.

The 11 priority policy areas discussed at the meeting will be evaluated by the committee members Sare Aydın Yılmaz (KADEM), Sanem Oktar Öğüt (KAGİDER), Nilüfer Bulut (TİKAD) and the committee president Gülden Türktan and reduced to 6 areas and will be discussed at panel discussions at W20 Summit on 7-8 October.