Died 1964-01-09.
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Halide Edib Adıvar
Halide Edip Adıvar was a Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she observed as a lack of interest of most women in changing their situation. She was a Pan-Turkist and several of her novels advocated for the Turanism movement.
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Born 11 June 1884 · Died 9 January 1964 · Q234289
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1950· 1 entry
Was elected to Parliament, resigning in 1954; this was the only formal political position she ever held
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1939· 1 entry
Becoming a professor in English literature at the Faculty of Letters in Istanbul
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1937· 1 entry
And in Turkish as Hindistan'a Dair in its entirety in 2014
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1935· 1 entry
And in Turkish as Sinekli Bakkal in 1936)
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1926· 1 entry
With the Progressive Republican Party's abolition and the approval of the Law of Reconciliation, she and her husband were accused of treason and escaped to Europe
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1918· 1 entry
“We slaughtered the innocent Armenian population ... We tried to extinguish the Armenians through methods that belong to the medieval times”
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1911· 1 entry
And became the first female member in 1912
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1908· 1 entry
Began writing articles on education and on the status of women for Tevfik Fikret's newspaper Tanin and the women's journal Demet
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1897· 1 entry
Translated Mother by Jacob Abbott, for which the sultan awarded her the Order of Charity (Şefkat Nişanı)
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-06-11.
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