Nafissa Sid-Cara or Nafissa Sidkara
[.] (18 April 1910, in
El Eulma,
Algeria
)
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- 1 January 2002,
Paris
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France
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) was a French politician. Sid-Cara was the first female minister to serve in the
French Fifth Republic
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as well as the first ever Algerian origin and
Muslim woman to serve as a minister in a French government. She was appointed
Secretary of State in charge of social affairs in
Algeria
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under Prime Minister
Michel Debré
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in 1959–62. This was the first time a woman was appointed into a French government since 1937.
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Personal life
Sid-Cara's family were
Algerians of Turkish origin;
her brother,
Chérif Sid Cara was also a
French politician.
References
1910 births
2002 deaths
People from El Eulma
Algerian War
Algerian people of Turkish descent
French people of Algerian descent
French people of Turkish descent
Women government ministers of France
20th-century French politicians
20th-century French women politicians
Migrants from French Algeria to France
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