For many centuries, the main starting point in raising woman prepared to provide continuance of the roles in “patriarchal” family has been based on the idea that woman does not need to make her presence felt in a wide range from employment to politics. This approach, which caused woman fall behind men even in terms of basic indicators, has been brought into the agenda of world’s societies and began to be held inside the context of woman’s human rights especially in the last century. Although Turkey has remained outside these developments all over the world, it is hard to say that there is a remarkable proceed in woman issue despite the rights given to women in the first years of the Republic. Turkey’s social and economic structure, historical development and cultural structure can be listed among the reasons for this. When tracing back the woman issue, the most important document among the Turkish political documents is government program which are believed to reflect most of the society’s perspective and lead the way to public politics within the period it comprised. This document is also important for being the route map of the government, the authorised body that provides the state to perform its duties. Within this scope, while the government programs before 1980 have been reviewed generally, the programs after 1980, which is accepted as the breaking point for the woman issue have been reviewed in detail in this study on the purpose of revealing the view of the period’s dominant ideology on woman issue and tracing the development on this subject. Besides, the main developments in the woman issue in each government’s period have been included in the study. Main scope of this study is how the policies regarding woman issue are determined, how the decisions are taken and how these decisions are put into practice on the highest level. At the end of the study it was noted that woman is embraced in the family and there is a strong family emphasis in the programs. It has been also determined that the woman issue is dealt as a separate title as we approach more recent times and the reason for this is to achieve the aim of “strong family” and “strong society”.