My wife,Yildiz Culfaz, who has died of lung cancer aged 66, and was a Turkish political activist and a tireless campaigner for women’s rights.
From the 1970s onwards,Yildiz played an active part in organising the influential Progressive Women’s organization (IKD), which had 33 branches and 20000 members in Turkey and, and among other things,ran a powerful campaign throughout the country to place pressure on government officials and factory owners to open day nurseries for the children of female employees.
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Source: theguardian.com