The Turkish Feminist People's Party 1924 – 1935: Its Origin and Activities

Section: Research Paper
Published
Mar 1, 2024
Pages
291-308

Abstract

After playing an obvious role during the wars that preceded the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, women realized that it was time to start claiming their political rights in conjunction with the modernization movements, which are moving rapidly to borrow from the west in various material and moral fields . There had been many discussions about political women rights in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey . From this standpoint, many feminist characters emerged, who played an obvious role to demand these rights, including Nazeeha Mohiedin . She formed with her colleagues a political party under the name of the Women's People's Party, which later became the Union of the Turkish Women . Therefore, it is necessary first to identify this character, her upbringing, her culture, and the reasons that promoted her to establish party (union later). She played an important role in the history of the Turkish women and the ways to obtain their rights. The research included many divisions that began with presenting an overview of Nazeeha Mohiedin concerning her upbringing, her cultural and scientific contribution, and her early beginning to demand women rights. This was followed by tackling the establishment of the Women's People's Party and its most important articles that presented the party's though and goals, its reflection in the newspapers, as well the reasons to accept its establishment. Then, the study tackles the establishment of Turkish Women Union, through which Nazeeha sought to achieve her goal of obtaining the political rights of women in this period . So that, it was established for the same idea for which the Women's People's Party was for muted with few differences in the declared goals, but in fact both seek to achieve the same goal. The Women Way magazine was published to present Nazeeha's ideas through the important articles and titles in this field, as well as her relationship with feminist characters and foreign magazines. The study concluded by tackling the union and its activities nature during the presidency of Mrs. Latifa Bakeer (1927-1935). In 1935, the union was closed, which was an extension of the path of women people party established by Nazeeha Mohiedin after achieving its goal of obtaining women political rights. Having a general look at the Arabic references, the do not provide a clear vision that covers the Turks are more knowledgeable about their history, I got the information from the original after I translated them myself into Arabic.

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Alnuaimi, İman. (2024). The Turkish Feminist People’s Party 1924 – 1935: Its Origin and Activities. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 54(96), 291–308. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2023.141703.1962