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Tawakkol Karman

توكل كرمان
Activist In opposition Verified

Yemeni journalist, politician, and human-rights activist. Co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in the Yemeni uprising. Senior member of the Islah party; has lived in Istanbul in recent years.

Country
Yemen
Role
Activist

Inherited position

Until Tawakkol Karman is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Yemen (via Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah))
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 2 parties 2 parties nationalist-arab centroid · 2 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ Southern Transitional Council (YE) · in government · Economic +3.5, Social -2.0 YE Southern Transitional Council Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) (YE) · in government · Economic +2.5, Social -7.0 YE Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah) Yemeni Socialist Party (YE) · Economic -6.0, Social +5.0 YE Yemeni Socialist Party Ansar Allah (Houthis) (YE) · in government · Economic -6.0, Social -8.0 YE Ansar Allah (Houthis) General People's Congress (YE) · Economic -2.0, Social -4.0 YE General People's Congress
Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)'s spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press Sectarian power-sharing → Post-sectarian / civic state
Yemeni Congregation for Reform (Islah)

On the record

Quotes attributed to Tawakkol Karman that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • No solution to the Yemeni crisis is acceptable, regardless of its conditions, if it does not provide for the prosecution of Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides.
    لا يُقبَل أيّ حلّ للأزمة اليمنيّة، مهما كانت شروطه، ما لم يضمن محاكمة عليّ عبدالله صالح ومعاونيه.
    2011 Tawakkol Karman in her Nobel Peace Lecture, Oslo — refusing the GCC initiative's immunity-from-prosecution clause for Saleh. nobelprize.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Tawakkol Karman [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tawakkol-karman
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Tawakkol Karman." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tawakkol-karman.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-tawakkol-karman,
  title     = {{Tawakkol Karman}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/tawakkol-karman},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.