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Ekofemism is an approach that thinks about women and nature. According to this approach that combines the concepts of ecology and feminism, there are conditions in the instrumentalization of women and nature under pressure. Ekofeminism, which claims that the origins of the practices that lead to ecological problems are the economic, scientific and social structures of the paradigms of the male dominant culture, claims that these structures are also influenced by women. According to the ecofeminist approach, these structures and perspectives are derived from the dualist thinking tradition. Ekofeminism, which suggests a comprehensive and relational alternative thought instead of dualities such as women and men, nature and culture, continues to track ecological problems and suppressive practices towards women in the historical and cultural process. The evaluation of the perspectives of the periods in which women’s values are in the forefront is functional in understanding the problems arising in the context of women and nature and in finding solutions to these problems. The ecofeminism, indicating that the ancient period communities have practices and approaches towards the unity of nature and culture, which is not dominated by men and dominant culture, is trying to take advantage of the thought world of these periods. It is clear that the traces of approaches in this direction will be found in cultural products from mythology to legends. In addition to the aspects that can be positively evaluated in nature and women’s judgments, the changes and transformations that occur in these judgments will also be revealed by the interpretation of cultural expressions in this direction. In this study, in light of the approaches of ecopheminist thought, the relationship between home and waste in Turkish culture was tried to be assessed. In our study, “the waste” has been dealt with in the conceptual sense beyond being just a waste and pollution. The concept of "home" as the concepts of "waste" and "pollution", which are addressed as a reflection of ecological problems in the home by extending its scope, has also been evaluated in a different context. Through the "ecological mark" which is trying to be created by moving beyond the daily meanings of these concepts in the Turkish culture in the framework of these concepts to try to resolve women and nature themes, is the main objective of our work. In this context, as the cults that attribute an inner value to the natural beings contained in the ancient contents of Turkish culture, the judgment that each existence is the values to be respected is the fundamental determinant for our study of the assumption that the integral structure of the relationship established with ecology in cultural-natural interaction is coded in cultural memory as an accumulation. The comparative study of the views of nature and women in the past and present makes it possible to interpret the ways in which the nature and women's attitude reveal in the cultural process. In this study, the assessment of cultural codes of a nature-compatible way of life, which is hidden in cultural memory and revealed in certain periods in practices, the approaches to nature and women are studied in the Turkish culture. In this framework, first, the approaches of the ecofeminist theory are described. Later in Turkish culture, the conceptual scheme created by presenting the beliefs and practices of the anaercal period and the views of the Ekofeminist thought are interpreted through the cultural structure of the nature and the perspective of the woman we think is included. With the current examples we have given for this purpose, we are trying to identify how the common-life and animist approaches, which emerged from the nature-cultural relationship in ancient periods, have defined women’s practices and perspectives.