FROM TURKEY TO LITHUANIA: HOW EQUAL WOMEN TO MEN, HOW ACTIVE WOMEN IN PATRIARCHY

Year 2019, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 8 - 17, 01.01.2019

Selen Gökçem

Abstract

This article aims to examine the recent past of Turkey and Lithuania together with Turkish and
Lithuanian woman directors and their movies in the sense of feminist approach. Even though both
countries have different historical backgrounds, the period between the 1980s and 1990s have a
profound impact on the very similar aspects of both countries such as economic, social, cultural and
gender. On the one hand, while Lithuania was gaining its freedom and almost started facing a new era
called post-Soviet, on the other hand, Turkish Republic was experiencing its third military takeover
throughout its history in the very morning of 12th September 1980. While Turkey was under military
control and restrictions during the 1980s, Lithuania was substantially close to being independent and
self-governed. However, these noticeable changes had various side effects during the 1990s mainly on
women both in Turkey and Lithuania. Through looking at politic, economic, social and cultural
differences, it will be questioned how effective the patriarch is and how women reclaimed their voices
to be visible and to fight for gaining their social rights in two different located countries as one in the
European Union territory and the other one in Western Asia and Southeastern Europe.

Keywords

Lithuanian cinema, Woman Directors, Turkish Woman Directors, Soviet Regime

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