Nezihe Muhiddin

Nezihe Muhiddin Tepedelengil (1889 – 10 February 1958[1]) was a Turkish women's rights activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader.

She also served  as a president of the Women's Union between 1924 and 1927[2] and helped the founding process of the journal named Turk Kadin Yolu.

Muhiddin then founded Türk Kadınlar Birliği (Turkish Women's Union) with Latife Bekir, and edited a feminist publication.

In 1927 the Union decided to promote a feminist male candidate to champion women's rights in the parliament, but he was unsuccessful.

Nezihe Muhiddin wrote novels that studied women's problems and criticized men's attitudes in marriages.

[2] She worked as a Directorate of İttihad ve Terakki Kız Sanayi Mehteb and published many novels and stories.

The Turkish Women's Union disbanded in 1935, and it was invited to join the semi-official People's Houses, like many similar autonomous organizations.

[8] Nezihe Muhiddin was threatened, disregarded, and discarded by a series of prosecutions, both by the state authorities and by her female companions.

[8] As a result of the intimidation and deletion policies of that period, she did (could) not engage in political activity after the 1930s and focused on her author identity.