Özet:

Female suffrage was granted to Turkish women before other developed Western countries by the scope of Atatürk, founder leader of Turkish Republic, and by the struggle of modern and educated women in this regard. An important person participating to this struggle is a sophisticated intellectualist, Nezihe Muhittin. She was born in Istanbul in the year 1889 and was the girl of a wealthy family. She began to work at Kız Idadisi as a science teacher at 1909. She was the director of Ittihat ve Terraki Kız Sanayi School and Selcuk Hatun Sultanisi. At the same years, she began to write sociology, pedagogy and psychology articles in the newspapers Sabah and Ikdam. Struggle of Nezihe Muhittin on political rights of women was began with the participation of her to the Osmanlı-Turk Hanımları Esirgeme Association in 1913. Nezihe Muhittin’s clear point was to carry the women in a similar status with men not only in social and economical lives but also in the political area. She attempted to institute a political party named Kadinlar Halk Firkasi in 1923. This is the first attempt of instituting a political party in the republic period. At the same year, she and her 12 friends instituted an association named as “Turk Kadinlar Birligi”. Thereafter, Nezihe Muhittin worked within the framework of the right of female suffrage for women through this association. This and similar attempts granted the right of female suffrage to Turkish women in 1934. Nezihe Muhittin had a life dedicated to rights of women and died in the year 1958 with leaving thousands of student, nearly 20 novels, nearly 300 stories, grandstanded plays, operettas and filmes scenarios behind.

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