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

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