Nazik Isik has worked in the State Planning Organisation of Turkey as an expert in social policy, and is currently teaching Social Policy at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She has written extensively on social policy and gender issues, including The Candidate Country Turkey’s Priorities in the Harmonisation Process to the EU’s Social Policy (paper presented to the seminar of the same title organised by The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Istanbul 2000); and contributions to Feminism in Turkey in the 1990s (Iletisim Publishing House 2002), and the review Feminist Approach, Ankara. She is a feminist activist, and a founding member of the Women’s Solidarity Foundation in Ankara. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the 10 December Movement, which aims to create a new and contemporary social-democratic party in Turkey.