Pristupi su se mijenjali sporo, i "nakon sredine 1980-tih imali ste jednu novu vrstu feminističkog pokreta u nastajanju, koji se snažno usmjerio na nasilje nad ženama," pojašnjava Nicole Pope, kolumnista za list Today's Zaman i autorica djela Objelodanjena Turska.
Attitudes slowly changed, and "after the mid-1980s you had a new kind of feminist movement that emerged that focused heavily on violence against women," Nicole Pope, a columnist for Today's Zaman and author of Turkey Unveiled, explains.