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In this study, I started from the political activism of the Kurdish women in Turkey in the post-1980 period. In the 1980s, Kurdish women were visible mostly in the protests and acts of resistance against the human rights violations in the prisons. By the 1990s, they had turned out to be political agents in all layers of the Kurdish movement.

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Çağlayan, H. (2020). Conclusion. In: Women in the Kurdish Movement . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24744-7_6

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