Emel Öget Gazimihal (1912–1998) was the first female radio presenter in
Turkey.
Biography
Emel Öget was born in 1912. Her father's name was Fevzi Öget. She married Tahsin Gazimihal.
In 1937, she was serving for the
Turkish PTT
PTT, an abbreviation for (lit. Post and Telegraph Agency), is the national post and telegraph directorate of Turkey. Formerly, the organization was named . After the privatization of the telephone telecommunications service business, the dire ...
in
Ä°stanbul. In the 1930s,
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) was not yet established, and the radio broadcasting was under the responsibility of the Turkish PTT. After an audition, she was recruited as the news speaker of
Ankara Radio
Ankara Radio ( tr, Ankara Radyosu) is a nationwide radio network broadcasting from Ankara. Its first broadcast was on 6 November 1927, by a 5 kW longwave AM transmitter over 1554 meters.
See also
* Radyo 2
Radyo 2, also known as TRT FM, ...
. She went to
Ankara and immediately began working without any preliminary training. She recalls that in the early days of the radio, there was no standard acoustic treatment in the studio and the walls were covered by carpets.
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On 1 October 1937, she was sent by the government to London, England to take training at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for six months. She returned to Turkey to continue as the only permanent female speaker. She served in Ankara Radio as a news speaker and during World War II, Turkish people learned the course of the war by her voice. In 1951, she returned to İstanbul, and served about ten years in İstanbul Radio. She retired in 1962.TRT page Emel Gazimihal with Halit Kıvanç
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Emel Gazimihal died in 1998, and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
References
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1912 births
Turkish women civil servants
Turkish civil servants
Turkish radio presenters
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation people
BBC people
1998 deaths
Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
Turkish women radio presenters