Behice Boran (1 May 1910 – 10 October 1987) was a Turkish
Marxist politician, author and
sociologist. As a dissenting political voice from the
left, Boran was repeatedly imprisoned for her work and died in exile after the
Turkish military coup of 1980.
Biography
Boran was born in
Bursa to
Kazan Tatar parents whose families had settled in the
Ottoman Empire
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during the 1890s. She graduated from
American College for Girls in
Istanbul
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and studied sociology at the
University of Michigan
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in
the United States
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. She received a PhD on sociology in 1939 from the University of Michigan, and was involved in
Marxism
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. She was nominated to
Ankara University, Faculty of Language and History-Geography as an associate professor.
She also joined the clandestine
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) and began publishing left-wing periodicals, ''
Yurt ve Dünya'' (Turkish: ''Motherland and World'') and ''Adımlar'' (Turkish: ''Steps''), which led to her sacking from the university. In 1950, she led the formation of the Turkish Peacelovers Association, which protested against Turkey's participation in the
Korean War
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, which led to her arrest and a sentence of 15 months in prison. In 1965, Boran was
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deputy from the
Workers' Party of Turkey
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in the
Turkish parliament
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. Within the party Boran and
Sadun Aren
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Early life and education
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formed an alliance, known as Aren-Boran faction.
In 1970, she assumed the leadership of the party.
She was arrested after the military coup of 1971 and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. After she was released following an amnesty in 1974, she re-established the TİP in 1975.
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After the military coup of 1980, Boran went into exile in Europe, living as a political refugee in ]Sofia
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, Brussels
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and Düsseldorf
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. In 1987, she announced that TİP and TKP had decided to merge. She died soon after this press conference from heart disease in Brussels, Belgium. She was 77 years old. Her body was brought to Istanbul
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and her funeral turned into a mass demonstration, the first public show of force of Turkey's left-wing movement after the coup.
References
See also
*Politics of Turkey
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