She invited girls and their parents to gymnastics courses that she held free of charge at the community center Beyoğlu Halkevi. In an article published in the daily Cumhuriyet, she criticized the 1939 "Law on the Obligation of Physical Education", which immunized women over a certain age from physical education. She wrote: "To love something, you have to know. To know something you have to learn. And, to learn something, you have to see and practice!"
