
The long struggle of Turkish women to survive
In the late Ottoman Empire, women organized protests and fought for equality. Now they are fighting to survive in Turkey. Women in the Ottoman Empire did not remain silent against discrimination and injustice. They organized activities and published newspapers and magazines to raise their voice in the late 19th and the early 20th century. With the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of a new republican regime in the 1920s, the reforms put in place by the Turkish president