ABSTRACT
During these times, they also began to participate in international civil society networks and intergovernmental forums and fundraising activities for gender-related projects. Such activism succeeded in gender policy changes in the early 2000s, when the beginning of the incomplete journey to the EU and the accession process had a profound impact on women’s activism (Hande Eslen-Ziya 2007). In the second decade of the 2000s, when both the membership hopes and the European Union momentum began to diminish, women’s activists adopted new strategies and new resources that included social media.
