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Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862-1936)
She was born in 1862 in Istanbul. Topuz could not receive any formal education but she managed to educate herself by eagerly listening private lessons that her older brother taught. When she was 17, she married to Faik Bey and had 4 daughters from him.
Remziye Hisar (1902-1992)
She was born in 1902 in Skopje. She is the first woman chemist in Turkey. Her studies were interrupted during the hard times of WWI, but she managed to enroll Istanbul University where she started to teach classes such as mathematics and geometry. She enrolled
Safiye Ali (1891-1952)
She was born in 1891. She holds the title of being the first female medical doctor in Turkey. Graduating from American Girls College in 1916, she decided to become a medical doctor. Back then, the Faculty of Medicine in Istanbul did not accept any female
Dilhan Eryurt (1926-2012)
She was born in İzmir, 1926. Finishing Ankara Girls High School, she enrolled to the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Istanbul University. She then started to work as an assistant at University of Ankara and then completed her PhD on Astrophysics in 1953. She
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914)
She was born in 1914 in Bursa, Turkey. In 1936, she got enrolled in to Ankara University Faculty of Language, History and Geography. In the faculty, she took classes like Language and Culture of Hittite; Sumerian and Acadian Languages and Mesopotamian Culture. After graduating in
Feryal Özel (1975)
Feryal Ozel is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy at University of Arizona. She has made pioneering contributions to the physics of neutron stars and black holes, as well as to the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies in the
Şirin Tekeli (1944-2017)
She was born in Ankara in 1944. She finished her secondary education in Ankara Girls’ High School. Between the years of 1961-1963, she learned French in Paris and got enrolled in Law Faculty, but then continued her studies in Lausanne Switzerland on Political Science. Until
Halide Edip (1884-1964)
Halide Edip was born in 1882. She became one of the symbols of independent Turkish women in Independence War period and the early modernist period in Turkey. In 1893, she started studying at Uskudar American Girls’ College. She was very fluent in English and her
Nezihe Muhiddin (1889-1958)
Nezihe Muhiddin was born in Istanbul in 1889. Between the years of 1911 and 1944, she had 17 novels, 300 stories published. She is one of the front-runners in Ottoman feminism. She believed that for a nation to rise, the women of that nation had