“…6 Similar to the feminist movement in the late 1960s and 1970s in western European countries, an important majority of women who became involved in the feminist movement after 1980 in Turkey came from a socialist background (Hercus, 2005: 3;Uçan Çubukçu, 2004: 59). For instance, many women leading feminist activism after the coup had been involved in the Progressive Women`s Organization (İKD -İlerici Kadınlar Derneği 1975-1979 which was one of the very few women-only organizations with a socialist affiliation before 1980 (Akal, 2003;Arıkan, Atabek & Çarkçıoğlu, 1996). However, the İKD shared a similar fate with other socialist organizations of the 1970s and was closed down in 1979.…”