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Item Restricted Beginning of a new chapter: global impact of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's reforms for Turkish feminism(Bilkent University, 2023) Rehman, Ibtisam Ur; Javed, Moeeza; Abuamer, Rahma Khaled Mohamed; Kristo, EbiWith the fourth wave of feminism on the rise, culminating in the efforts to reduce the marginalization of women since 2012, questions of the origins and causations of earlier waves of feminism in different countries have become more relevant. Close religious ties and strong political influences should imply that Turkey has fallen behind compared to its European counterparts in advancing the interests of modern feminism. In contradiction, early waves of feminism paint a different story where Turkish feminism produced global impacts. This paper analyzes how the reforms made by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during the 1920s and 1930s helped advance feminist organizations within Turkey while also influencing feminist circles throughout Europe. The emergence of Turkish women and the feminist organizations working in Turkey at the time, including the Turkish Women’s Union (TWU), as ideals for feminist circles outside Turkey is also discussed with an emphasis on how the efforts were catalyzed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s political and ideological support. The efforts of Turkish feminist organizations will be analyzed in light of the international and local acclaim of Turkish feminist organizations in popular media. In addition, the analysis of the criticism done by the local media and other members of academia on Ataturk will also be analyzed to help research the reasons behind subsequent fallbacks that Turkish feminism has faced up until the current fourth wave of feminism.