Abstract
Although Turkish women’s attainment of personal rights and freedoms and being considered equal before the law are among the most important innovations brought by the Republic, its acceptance in social life has spread over a long period of time. While the duties and responsibilities of women as wife, friend, child and mother are embodied in a ossified way on the social base, Turkish women’s education and enlightenment, along with the acquired legal rights, seek their own rights and freedoms by moving away from this ossified structure, and to work with men from political life to business life or to be ahead of them. It has been and continues to be realized with the devoted efforts and work of some women. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the rights given to Turkish women are used by women in the period from the establishment of the republic of Turkey to 1960, how much these rights are understood by the society and how much men support them in seeking women’s rights and how itis to reveal that there are problems and what needs to be done to correct this situation. In the research, articles and copyrighted works related to the subject were examined; Parliamentary Minutes, Official Gazette and periodicals were scanned; the National Library Archive was used.