Türk Kadinlar Birligi
Türk Kadinlar Birligi (Turkish Women's Union) was a women's organization in Turkey, founded in 1924.[1] It was the main women's suffrage organization in Turkey. It played a significant part in the history of the Turkish women's movement.
History[edit]
In 1923, after the foundation of the Turkish Republic, the Women's People Party was founded by Nezihe Muhiddin. However, the party could not be registered, because women's suffrage had not been provided for in the new state. In response, Nezihe Muhiddin founded the Türk Kadinlar Birligi to work for the introduction of women's suffrage.[2]
President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was willing to meet most of the demands of the Turkish women's movement, and did so with three major reforms: by inducting women in the state education system along with men; by introducing the Swiss Civil Code of 1926, giving Turkish women the same rights as Swiss women; and finnally by introducing women's suffrage in 1935.
The organization hosted the Twelfth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Istanbul in 1935. That same year, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced women's suffrage. Their goal having been achieved, the President of the organization, Latife Bekir dissolved the organization that same year.[3] Most of the women elected to Parliament in 1935 were members of the Türk Kadinlar Birligi.[4]
After the dissolution of the Turkish Women's Union, the Turkish women's movement merged with the Secular Kemal's party. And independent Turkish women's movement did not emerge until the 1980s.
References[edit]
- ↑ Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics
- ↑ Fisher, Robert (2006). Evil, Law and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence. Amsterdam: Brill. p. 66. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Search this book on
- ↑ Yaktıl Oğuz (Ed), Gürsel. Toplumsal Yaşamda Kadin. Eskişehir: Anadolu Universitesi. p. 192. Retrieved 10 March 2022.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ De Haan, Francisca; Daskalova, Krassimira; Loutfi, Anna (2006). A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 357. Search this book on
- Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics
- https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=miami1060799831&disposition=inline
- https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1476331
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