Turkish women achieved voting rights in the local elections on 3 April 1930.

[2] Four years later, on 5 December 1934, they gained universal suffrage, earlier than most other countries.

[2] Öymen joined the Republican People's Party (CHP), and was elected in the election held on 8 February 1935 from İstanbul Province, as one of the first seventeen female politicians into the 5th Parliament of Turkey.

But in the 8th Parliament of Turkey, she was elected a deputy from Ankara Province.

In the 1950 general election her party was defeated and her term in the parliament ended.