Abstract :
This paper is about the women’s organizations in Turkey. It focuses particularly
on the legal structures, activities, aims and target groups of the women’s
organizations. Based on in-depth interviews with 33 activist women from five cities in
Turkey, including Istanbul, Ankara, Van, Diyarbak?r and Trabzon, it aims to
understand the ways through which women get organized and form their activities,
for what reasons
Keyword :
Women’s organizations, women’s activism, legal structure, target group.