Zeynep Zafer

Zeynep Zafer (Zeynep Ibrahimova) was born in 1958 in the village of Kornitsa (Bulgaria). When she was 15 years old she witnessed a bloody violence act caused by the attempts of the  the communist regime to assimilate by force the Pomaks (Bulgarian speaking Muslims). During Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

Hayriye Yenisoy (Hayrie Memova-Suleymanova) (1934-2018)

She was born on 1934 in the town of Crichim, Plovdiv district. She graduated Turkish Philology from Sofia University (it was the first course in this specialty whose alumni graduated in 1956, among them H. Memova) and then Bulgarian Philology. At first she worked at Continue Reading

Gudumac EVA, n.1941

She was born on May 6, 1941, in Tătărăuca Veche, Soroca. After completing the studies in the locality, in 1958 she enrolled in the medical school in Soroca. She attended the Faculty of Pediatrics within the Medical University of Chisinau. She had the opportunity to Continue Reading

Alexandra Bujilova n. 1960

Alexandra Bujilova was born in Chisinau on October 8, 1960. She is a great anthropologist, director of the Institute of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University “M. Lomonosov”, PhD in Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Russia. She is Continue Reading