To explain the emergence and the development of women’s movement within the Westernization process of Ottoman Empire, To put forward political and military contributions of Turkish women in Turkish National Struggle, To reveal the changing and improving position of Turkish women both in family, working and political life and in the fields of law, education and culture together with the proclamation of republic by comparing it to Western world.

Westernization movement initiating with Tanzimat Reform Period in Ottoman Empire was accompanied by some changes in women’s life. Women who were restricted to live in their homes began to participate in social life to some extent. The winds of freedom blowing with the proclamation of second constitutional period in 1908 also affected women and they started to participate in social life. Some different views on the woman’s education, her status in family and society, her struggle to become in working life, polygamy and hijab discussions emerged among the representatives of such movements of the day as Turkism, Pan-Islamism and Westernism, which reverberated through the newspapers and magazines of the period. Women began to serve both in and beyond the war through the occupation of Anatolia and showed great heroism. Their supports were appreciated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Turkish women were given the social, juridical and political rights with the proclamation of republic.