 Using money she inherited, Bey founded the magazine "Women's World" () using the name Nuriye Ulviye on 4 April 4, 1913.Within the next month, on May 28, 1913, she founded the Ottoman Society for the Defense of Women’s Rights (), with the aim to improve women's education and employment opportunities and reform dress codes.Though the association was primarily an organization of Muslim women, there were ethnic minority members as well as European journalists.