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Fatma Aliye, pioneering women s rights under the Ottomans The fight for women s rights around the world continues. Fatma Aliye, Turkey s first female novelist and a pioneer of women s rights in the Ottoman Empire, is a figure who deserves greater recognition. By Canan Topcu When Turkey s central bank announced that, as of 2009, Fatma Aliye would be depicted on the new 50 lira banknote, there were protests. Some said that the writer was not well-known enough, others saw the choice as a further step in fundamentalist infiltration by the ruling AKP party. On the other hand, all those acquainted with Fatma Aliye s significance beyond political trench warfare were pleased: namely, as the first Turkish female author and the leading representative of the women s rights movement at the close of the Ottoman Empire. ....