Özet:

Attaining rights for women equal to those of men has been a long process of evolution. Until the 20th Century, the role of women in political and social life was restraint and limited. Winning rights for women to enter public life, other than in the roles of mother and housewife, were valued by the community only as the natural extension of the development of the concepts of democracy, human rights, and equality. In central Asian Turkish states, women had a great deal of rights. With the adoption of Islam, Turkish women were somewhat restricted in the exercise of these rights. Especially in the Ottoman Empire, until the Tanzimat era, the strict interpretation of Islamic rules prevented women from using these rights. Due to the foundation of some women’s associations in the Constitutional era and the attention of the press, Ottoman women started to ask for their rights and, as an extension to this, claimed their political rights. The full attainment of political rights for Turkish women was not accomplished until the declaration of the Republic

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