{{short description|Italian politician (born 1955)}} {{use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Livia Turco | honorific_suffix = {{small|OMRI}} | image = Livia_Turco_daticamera.jpg | office = Minister of Health | prime_minister = Romano Prodi | term_start = 17 May 2006 | term_end = 8 May 2008 | predecessor = Silvio Berlusconi (''ad interim'') | successor = Maurizio Sacconi | office1 = Minister of Social Solidarity | prime_minister1 = Romano Prodi<br>Massimo D'Alema<br>Giuliano Amato | term_start1 = 17 May 1996 | term_end1 = 11 June 2001 | predecessor1 = Adriano Ossicini | successor1 = Roberto Maroni | office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start2 = 2 July 1987 | term_end2 = 27 April 2006 | term_start3 = 29 April 2008 | term_end3 = 14 March 2013 | office4 = Member of the Senate | term_start4 = 28 April 2006 | term_end4 = 28 April 2008 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|2|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Cuneo, Italy | alma_mater = | profession = | party = PCI (1970–1991)<br>PDS (1991–1998)<br>DS (1998–2007)<br>PD (since 2007) }} '''Livia Turco''' (born 13 February 1955) is an Italian politician. She began her political career in the 1970s as a member of the Italian Communist Party, becoming a member of the Italian Parliament in 1987. She then joined its legal successors, the Democratic Party of the Left and then the Democrats of the Left. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected to the Senate of the Republic in 2006. By 2008, she returned to the Chamber of Deputies, and did not seek re-election in 2013. Turco was Minister of Social Affairs in three centre-left coalition-led governments from 1996 to 2001 and Minister of Health from 2006 to 2008.
== Life and career == Turco came from a working-class background in Morozzo, Cuneo, and studied in Cuneo and Turin, where she began her political career with the Italian Communist Party, becoming a deputy in 1987. Later, she was director of the Italian Communist Youth Federation, a regional councillor, and responsible for women in the local party federation. Following the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party in 1991, she joined the Democratic Party of the Left and then the Democrats of the Left as a deputy from 1992 to 2001. From May 1996 to June 2001, she was Minister of Social Affairs (''Solidarietà Sociale'') in the Olive Tree-led governments by Romano Prodi, Massimo D'Alema, and Giuliano Amato.<ref>[http://nuovo.camera.it/29?shadow_deputato=30760 Chamber of Deputies Profile], retrieved 22 April 2014</ref>
Turco unsuccessfully ran for president of Piedmont in 2000, and was elected a senator for Piedmont in 2006. She then became Minister of Health in the second Prodi government (2006–2008). Following the fall of Prodi's government, she was elected a deputy in April 2008 as a member of the centre-left Democratic Party, and ended her political career in 2013, not seeking re-election. Her name is attached to the 1998 immigration act known as the Turco-Napolitano Law (L. 40/98), as well as the 2000 parental leave and time regulation in cities act, also known as the Turco Act (Legge 53/2000).<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Lombardo | first1 = Emanuela | last2 = Sangiuliano | first2 = Maria | title = 'Gender and employment' in the Italian policy debates: The construction of 'non employed' gendered subjects | journal = Women's Studies International Forum | volume = 32 | issue = 6 | pages = 445–452 | doi = 10.1016/j.wsif.2009.09.007 | date = November–December 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | title = Time and territory. Time policies of the cities | publisher = The Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies | url = http://www.iermb.uab.cat/htm/descargaBinaria.asp?idRevArt=253 | access-date = 2017-05-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110903122038/http://www.iermb.uab.cat/htm/descargaBinaria.asp?idRevArt=253 | archive-date = 2011-09-03 | url-status = dead }} Paper 49.</ref>
== Honours and awards == * {{flag|Italy}}: Grand Cross Dame of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 27 December 2017.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.liviaturco.it/ Livia Turco's Blog] * [http://nuovo.camera.it/29?shadow_deputato=30760 Profile on the Chamber of Deputies website] * [http://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00002435.htm Profile on the Senate of the Republic website] * [http://www.openpolis.it/politico/1749 Livia Turco on Openpolis]
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