May The Goddess Guard Her. May She Find Her Way To The Summerlands. May Her Friends And Family Know Peace.

LAT reports that Turkish feminist Duygu Asena has died.

In 1978, she founded the first women's magazine in Turkey. Ignoring taboos, Asena was the first Turkish writer to explore such topics as women's rights, sexuality and wife-beating. [Her groundbreaking novel,] "Woman Has No Name," broke sales records when it was printed in 1987. It was soon banned by the government, which found it to be too lewd and obscene. The ban was lifted after a two-year court battle. A film adaptation of the book broke box office records in Turkey.

Asena wrote eight other feminist novels, including "There Is No Love" — a sequel to "Woman Has No Name" . . . .