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Turkish Women Academics
Turkish women in academics refers to Turkish women who make scientific research or teach in the universities in Turkey and abroad. Background During the Ottoman Empire era women had no chance to teach in the universities except for the very last years of the empire when Committee of Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki Partisi) came to power. The first Turkish woman who was able to teach in Istanbul University (then known as Darülfunun) was Halide Edib (later Halide Edib Adıvar) in 1918. But Halide Edib chose to join the nationalist forces of Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) in Anatolia rather than to stay in Istanbul. During the Republican era the number of academics increased. Present situation During the opening ceremony of 4th International Congress of Women Rectors in 2010, Gülsün Sağlamer, the chairperson of the organization committee, said that the percentage of women professors in Turkey was 27% and this percentage was higher than most other countries. She added t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Women
Women in Turkey are women who live in or are from Turkey. Turkey gave full political rights to women, including the right to elect and be elected locally in 1930 (nationwide in 1934). Article 10 of the Constitution of Turkey, Turkish Constitution bans any discrimination, state or private, on the grounds of sex. It is the first country to have a woman as the President of its Turkish Constitutional Court, Constitutional Court. Article 41 of the Turkish Constitution reads that the family is "based on equality between spouses". The Turkish feminist movement began in the 19th century during the decline of the Ottoman Empire when the Ottoman Welfare Organisation of Women was founded in 1908. The ideal of gender equality was embraced after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey by the administration of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whose Atatürk's reforms, modernising reforms included a ban on polygamy and the provision of full political rights to Turkish women by 1930. Turkish women c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahriye Üçok
Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved. Early life and education Born in Trabzon, Bahriye Üçok finished her primary education in Ordu and then graduated from Kandilli High School for Girls in Istanbul. She was educated in Medieval Islamic and Turkish History at the Faculty of Philology, History and Geography of Ankara University. At the same time, she attended the State Conservatory and completed the Opera section. Professional career After eleven years working as a high school teacher in Samsun and Ankara, she entered 1953 Ankara University as an assistant in the Faculty of Theology. She obtained her PhD in 1957, and became 1965 an associate professor with her thesis on "Female rulers in Islamic countries". She subsequently became a professor, being the ever first female university teacher in this faculty. She was flue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Akyüz Mattei
Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004. Biography Mattei was born in Bodrum, Turkey to Bella and Baruh Akyüz, in a Turkish Jewish family and educated in the American Collegiate Institute, İzmir. She came to the United States for university studies, and attended Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on the Wien Scholarship. Later, she was offered a job by Dorrit Hoffleit at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She worked at Leander McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1970 to 1972 and received her M.A. in Astronomy from the University of Virginia in 1972 and her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, 1982. As head of the AAVSO for over 30 years, she collected observations of variable stars by amateur astronomers from around the world. She coordinated many i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioanna Kuçuradi
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Yôḥānāh, lit=God is gracious. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, and Jeanne. The earliest recorded occurrence of the name Joanna, in Luke 8:3, refers to the disciple "Joanna the wife of Chuza," who was an associate of Mary Magdalene. Her name as given is Greek in form, although it ultimately originated from the Hebrew masculine name יְהוֹחָנָן ''Yəhôḥānān'' or יוֹחָנָן ''Yôḥānān'' meaning 'God is gracious'. In Greek this name became Ιωαννης ''Iōannēs'', from which ''Iōanna'' was derived by giving it a feminine ending. The name Joanna, like Yehohanan, was associated with Hasmonean families. Saint Joanna was culturally Hellenized, thus bearing the Grecian adaptation of a Jewish name, as was commonly done in her milieu. At the beginning of the Christian era ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halet Çambel
Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games. Private life Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on 27 August 1916, to Turkish military attaché Hasan Cemil Bey (Çambel), a close associate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, and Remziye Hanım, the daughter of Ibrahim Hakki Pasha, a former Grand Vizier (prime minister of the Ottoman sultan) and the Ottoman ambassador to the German Empire at the time. She completed her secondary education at Arnavutköy American High School for Girls (today Robert College). During the high school years, she was inspired by her history of art teacher, who organized visits to historic sites of Istanbul. It was at this time that she began to perform fencing. Between 1933–1939, she was educated in archaeology at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Çambel became a scientific assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güzin Dino
Güzin Dino (1910 – May 30, 2013) was a Turkish literary scholar, linguist, translator and writer. She is known for writing from a Marxist perspective. She was married to the painter Abidin Dino (1913–1993).Presse et mémoire: France des étrangers, France des libertés - 1990 - 170 "Les années cinquante verront, elles, le départ forcé d'intellectuels et militants kurdes, d'artistes et universitaires de gauche tels Abidin Dino, Guzin Dino, Pertev Naili Boratav, O. Remzi... qui influencent durablement la communauté turque et ." Güzin and Abidin Dino married 1943 in Adana, Turkey. Her husband was a member of the Turkish Communist Party, who was exiled to the southern Turkish city. Subject to political pressure and prosecution, Abidin Dino left Turkey in 1952 to settle in Paris, France. She followed her husband in 1954 to France. The couple toured many places across France with sanatoriums due to Abidin's illness. They settled in Saint-Michel in the 5th arrondissement of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gülsün Sağlamer
Gülsün Sağlamer (born in 1945) is a Turkish academic, the third female rector in Turkey. Life Sağlamer was born in 1945 in Trabzon. After finishing primary and secondary education in her home city she obtained her MS from the School of Architecture in Istanbul Technical University (ITU). She carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Martin Centre, Department of Architecture- University of Cambridge, UK 1975-1976. She returned to Istanbul. She became associate professor in 1978, and professor in 1988 in ITU. Between 1994-1995 she was the visiting professor in Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Between 1996-2004, she was elected as the rector of Istanbul Technical University. She is the president of European Women Rectors Association. Between 2005-2009 she was elected to the board of European University Association (EUA). Later she was elected to the board of trustees in Kadir Has University Kadir Has University, also known as KHAS, is a foundation univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feryal Özel
Feryal Özel (born May 27, 1975) is a Turkish-American astrophysicist born in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the physics of compact objects and high energy astrophysical phenomena. As of 2022, Özel is the Department Chair and a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics in Atlanta. She was previously a professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory. Özel graduated ''summa cum laude'' from Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and received her PhD at Harvard University with Ramesh Narayan acting as Thesis advisor. She was a Hubble Fellow and member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was a Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute and a visiting professor at the Miller Institute at UC Berkeley. Özel is widely recognized for her contributions to the field of neutron stars, black holes, and magnetars. She is a member and Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elza Erkip
Elza Erkip is a Turkish-American electrical and computer engineer, professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University. Education Erkip received her B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and her M.S. and Ph.D. (1996, under Thomas Cover) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She ranked among the top 1% of highly cited scholars in computer science from 2002 to 2012 according to Thomson Reuters. Background Erkip is one of the researchers at NYU WIRELESS, where they are currently conducting indepth research into 5G wireless cell technology using millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communications. She is also a fellow and member of the Board of Governors of IEEE, and a member of The Science Academy Society of Turkey. Awards * IEEE Fellow, 2011, for contributions to multi-user and cooperative communications. * Finalist, The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derya Akkaynak
Derya Akkaynak is a Turkish mechanical engineer and oceanographer at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. She was a 2019 finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Early life and education Akkaynak is from the Aegean coast of Turkey. After completing her primary and secondary education at TED Ankara College and graduating in 1998, she studied aerospace engineering at the Middle East Technical University, where she graduated top of her class in 2003. She moved to the United States after graduating, where she earned a master's degree in Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. Her Master's dissertation involved investigations into fuel cells for the improvement of on-site emergency power availability in nuclear power plants. After graduating Akkaynak worked as a consultant in risk analysis. She decided to return to school, and started a doctoral degree in oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. For her doctoral work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canan Dağdeviren
Canan Dağdeviren (born May 4, 1985) is a Turkish women in academics, Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkey, Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is "coded" in various forms of physical patter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgül Ayman Güler
Birgül Ayman Güler (born 1 June 1961) is a female Turkish academic and politician. Life Birgül Ayman was born to İlyas and Zehra in Bergama ilçe (district) of İzmir Province, Turkey on 1 June 1961. After obtaining her bachelor's degree in the School of Administration and Economy at Marmara University in İstanbul in 1983, she entered the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University. She received both Master's and PhD degrees in Ankara University. While still in the university, she was appointed vice expert of Research and Planning Department of the Ministry of Interior in 1985. Then, she began serving in the Public Administration Institute of Turkey and Middle East (TODAİE) as an academic. In 1996, she became an associate professor, and in 2002, full professor. The same year, she transferred to Ankara University as a faculty member. Politics According to an interview in ''Hürriyet'' newspaper, she was interested in politics while she was only 14. In 2002, she bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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