Week 12 reading

               In the deniz kamdiyoti reading I came to the understanding that basically women in turkey was becoming to their political rights. Modernization was becoming a part of the new turkey laws and practices. With these changes, Islam being the accepted religion as state which was revoked because it was going against the Muslim civil code. Turkey women movement was based on a lot of western feminist. She talked about how the women hold a deeper meaning for cultural integrity and the Ottoman Empire. In order for these changes to happen the women political status became more and more distanced from “Islam”.  Women became able to vote in 1908, which was one of the first huge changes. In 1908 women revolution gave power to the Turkish women, expanding their public experiences. Women emancipation under kemalism was part of a broader political project, and that was part of a western cultural orientation. Medical school institutions started in 1842, female vocational school started in 1858, women being trained for college was in 1869, and these are some of the changes that were made to the empire practices. Also after World War 1 the male loss in labor demanded females to go to work. “The Turkism of the second constitutional period represented an attempt at recuperating a sense of national identity which did not rest solely on Islam”. She talks about how the second constitutional was debates among women and the family. She talks about how women in turkey transitioned from a multi ethnic empire to a secular nations state with the stance of political engagement .