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Pakize İzzet Tarzi (1910 – 10 October 2004) was a Turkish physician. She is renowned for being the first female
gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined ...
in the Republic of Turkey.


Early life

Tarzi was born in Ottoman Aleppo in 1910. Her father was the Inspectorates-General of the Ziraat Bankası in Aleppo. The family moved to
Adana Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, wh ...
once the British captured Damascus in 1918, and then to
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once the French took control of Adana. She studied her secondary education at the Sörler Okulu and then decided to pursue a career as a doctor during her studies at the Bursa American Girls College. She finished her studies in Medicine in 1932. On 21 July 1949, she opened the first women's clinic, the "Pakize İ. Tarzi Kliniği", in
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district of
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,
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. She is also known as the very first Turkish woman, who swam across the
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in the 1930s.


Personal life

In 1935, she married Fettah Tarzi, who was the nephew of
Soraya Tarzi Soraya Tarzi (Pashto/Dari: ملکه ثريا; November 24, 1899 – April 20, 1968) was the first queen consort of Afghanistan as the wife of King Amanullah Khan. She played a major part in the modernization reforms of Amanullah Khan, particula ...
, wife of the Afghan King
Amanullah Khan Ghazi Amanullah Khan ( Pashto and Dari: ; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1 ...
. They had two daughters, Fatma and Zeynep, and a son, Mahmut. Zeynep Tarzi was the second wife of the Imperial Ottoman Prince
Ertuğrul Osman Şehzade Ertuğrul Osman Efendi ( ota, ارطغرل عثمان), also known as Osman Ertuğrul Osmanoğlu with a Surname Law, surname as required by the Turkish Republic (18 August 1912 – 23 September 2009), was a Shah#Shahzada, Prince of the Ot ...
. Tarzi died at the age of 94.


References

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