Many of the fairy tales in Ziya Gökalp's Altın Işık are composed of women with some dominant and warrior features. This feature is important in terms of reminding women's perception of Turks and making them accustomed to Turkish children. Approaching the subject in the context of cultural memory, it is an undeniable fact that Ziya Gökalp's didactic style contributed greatly to the development and continuation of Turkish culture. Women who are protagonists in the fairy tales of the Altın Işık draw attention with their strong, determined, altruistic, warrior, optimistic and loyal structures. However, these women have a hard working character who oppose the patriarchal social order and breaks the “other” image of women in masculine minds. The criticism of the patriarchal order in this work has been made through these fairy tales, especially the girls were advised through the fairy tales on the following issues: the importance of knowing and loving the spouse before mar- riage, the worthlessness of the position of the spouse and the importance of having the self-confidence of making big decisions. In these fairy tales, it was criticized with skillful language that the girls were married to the men whom their fathers wanted and their humiliation in terms of physical power. Even the Orkhon Inscriptions, written in the 8th century, which refer to the oldest artifacts and the oldest form of Turkish culture, refer to the equality of khan and his wife. Looking at the following sources, it is seen that women in the old Turkish culture are highly valued. It should be noted that Ziya Gökalp has always made a mission to remind this and similar modern structure of old Turkish culture and to prevent the deletion of these features from cultural memory. The Altın Işık also refers to the warrior characteristics of women in the Turks. The belligerent characteristics of Turkish women have been revealed in some places with their persistent structures in the struggle with problems and in some places they can actually ride horses and shoot arrows and fight with swords. It would not be wrong to think of the type of woman in the fairy tales of Altın Işık as the status of a single woman in different situations and experiences. It can be said that the strong and good woman type in the work has an invariable formula in itself. Strong, altruistic, intelligent, warrior, persistent, determined characteristics are common features of fe- male heroes. As it is known, the target audience of the fairy tale genre is children. The perspective created in childhood will be one of the dominant elements of identity and character that will become ossified in the future. Ziya Gökalp, who attaches great importance to children's education in his works and insists on this issue, tried to place the perception of women in Turkish culture to Turkish children through these fairy tales.