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Abstract enPatriarchy is a social system in which men decide everything and women’s views are ignored. As European countries, Ottoman society was a patriarchal, too. However, there were brave, intellectual and outspoken women citizens in Ottoman Empire. Fatma Aliye , the daughter of the significant statesman , Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, was the symbol of women liberation. She was the first woman novelist in Turkish literature. Even though she encountered hardicaps in her life, she did not give up reading and writing on Islam, women rights and philosophy. She had a good command of French language. She always maintaned that women were respected and independent members of the society and the moral values, traditions should be combined with contemporary life style. In that respect, her progressive ideas indicates that she was a feminist thinker and writer. The aim of this study is to shed light on her views regarding the status of women in Ottoman Empire and her social works to liberate Turkish women

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