Hatı Çırpan (formerly Satı Kadın, 1890 – March 21, 1956) was a Turkish politician, one of the first female members of the parliament in the

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, elected in the 1935 general elections.

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She was born in the village of

Kahramankazan Kahramankazan (previously named Kazan) is a town and district of the Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, standing on the plain of Akıncı to the north west of the city of Ankara. According to 2010 census, population of the ...

in 1890. Her father and mother were Kara Mehmet Efendi and Emine Hanım. She was the wife of a soldier who was wounded in the throat during the Balkan War. She was the mother of five children. She worked as a farmer and village headman after her father. On October 26, 1933, after women were given the right to be mukhtars, she won the elections for the village headman of Kazan and became one of the first female mukhtars in Turkey. Just before the Second Language Congress (''İkinci Türk Dil Kurultayı'', 18–23 August 1934), on July 16, 1934, President

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for an excursion to the village of

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(at the time part of

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district of

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),A. Afetinan, ''Tarih'ten bugün'e'', Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1970, p. 164. A. Afetinan, ''Cumhuriyetʼin Ellinci yılı için Köylerimiz'', Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1978, p. 8. away from the capital Ankara.Emin Karakuş, ''40 yıllık bir gazeteci gözü ile İşte Ankara'', Hür Yayın ve Ticaret, 1977, p. 22. During this excursion, Atatürk was introduced to Satı Kadın, who was the village chief of Kazan. She was a peasant from Central Anatolia who had fought for four years during the

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.''The Turkish Woman (1919-1923)'', Basın Yayın Genel Müdürlüğü, p. 36. The two engaged in conversation, after which Atatürk was reported to have taken a liking to Satı Kadın's achievements and intelligence. According to

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, Atatürk said after meeting her, "This is an exceptional woman who can thrive as a member of the parliament."''İşte mebus olacak kadın.'', A. Afetinan, ''Kemal Atatürk'ü Anarken'', Güzel Sanatlar Matbaası, 1956, p. 67. Satı Kadın was sponsored and supported in her successful campaign for office by Atatürk himself. Later, she changed her first name to Hatı at the advice of Atatürk, who was interested in the civilization of the

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at the time, and because her former name Satı meant "sale" or "purchase" in Turkish. She adopted the surname of Çırpan after the 1934

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required all Turkish citizens to have a surname. Satı Kadın returned to Kahramankazan after completing her parliamentary duty. She died on March 21, 1956. There is a mausoleum in Kahramankazan and her house has been restored and turned into a museum. File:First female MPs of the Turkish Parliament (1935).jpg, Eighteen female MPs joined the

in 1935. File:Sati Kadin at the rostrum of TBMM.jpg, Hatı Çırpan at the rostrum of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

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1890 births 1956 deaths People from Ankara People from Angora vilayet Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Deputies of Ankara 20th-century Turkish women politicians Women's suffrage in Turkey {{Turkey-politician-stub

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