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Filiz Koçali (born 22 January 1958, Istanbul [1] ) is a female Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist. She was a founder member of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) in 1996 and of the break-away Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) in 2002, and was secretary general of the SDP from 2004 to 2009. She is now a member of the Peace and Democracy Party. [1]
Born in Istanbul, she participated in the students' movement in 1976.[ citation needed ] She interrupted her vocational training to work in several factories and take part in the struggles of the labor movement. After the 1980 military coup, she was active in a human rights organisation in Istanbul. [1]
As a journalist she wrote for the magazines Kadınca and Kim and the newspapers Radikal gazetesi and Bianet .[ citation needed ] Having been a part of the women's rights movement since 1987, Koçali was one of the founding members of the feminist magazine Pazartesi , whose editor-in-chief she was for a while. [1] She was editor of the daily Günlük (published 2009 to 2011).
She was involved in the founding of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) in 1996 as well as the Socialist Democracy Party, which broke away from the former in 2002, and a member of the executive committees of both parties. She was secretary general of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) [2] from May 2004 to 2009. [1]
The Freedom Socialist Party is a left-wing socialist political party with a revolutionary feminist philosophy based in the United States. It views the struggles of women and minorities as part of the struggle of the working class. It emerged from a split in the United States Socialist Workers Party in 1966. The party's Seattle branch, with support from individuals in other cities, split off from the SWP over what it described as the SWP's entrenched opportunism and undemocratic methods. The party has branches and members in the United States, as well as Australia, England, Germany and New Zealand. The current National Secretary of the FSP is Doug Barnes.
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