Filiz Koçali (born 22 January 1958, Istanbul[1]) is a female Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist.
[citation needed] She interrupted her vocational training to work in several factories and take part in the struggles of the labor movement.
After the 1980 military coup, she was active in a human rights organisation in Istanbul.
[1] As a journalist she wrote for the magazines Kadınca and Kim and the newspapers Radikal gazetesi and Bianet.
[citation needed] Having been a part of the women's rights movement since 1987, Koçali was one of the founding members of the feminist magazine Pazartesi, whose editor-in-chief she was for a while.