Srbijanka Turajlić ( sr-cyr, Србијанка Турајлић; 25 April 1946 – 25 September 2022) was a Serbian academic and political activist. She was a professor at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Turajlić was Assistant Minister of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Sports of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 during the Cabinets of Zoran Đinđić and Zoran Živković. In 2017, Turajlić was a founding member of the Movement of Free Citizens led by

Saša Janković Saša Janković ( sr-cyr, Саша Јанковић, ; born 27 April 1970) is a Serbian lawyer, journalist, human rights activist and politician who served as the National Ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia between 2007 and 2017. He resigned his ...

Biography

Turajlić finished elementary and high school in Belgrade. As a high school senior, she was a member of the Yugoslav national team at the 6th

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in 1964 in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade in 1969, received her

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in 1973, and received her doctorate in 1979. During her studies, she received student awards several times. She received a scholarship from the French government in

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from 1974 to 1975. In 1982 she was elected Assistant Professor, as an Associate Professor in 1989. She served as a lecturer from 1984 to 1986 in

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. She retired from the

in 2011. In 2017, Turajlić signed the

Declaration on the Common Language The Declaration on the Common Language ( sh, Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / ) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a project ...

of the

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and

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. Turajlić was the subject of an award-winning documentary film directed by her daughter

Mila Turajlić Mila Turajlić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мила Tураjлић; born 1979) is a Serbian filmmaker. She directed and produced award-winning films ''The Other Side of Everything'' and ''Cinema Komunisto''. Background Turajlić was born in Belgrade, S ...

called ''The Other Side Of Everything''. Turajlić suddenly died in Livorno on 25 September 2022, at the age of 76.

Politics

Turajlić was an active member of the

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Movement in the 1990s. She was the winner of the 2009 Osvajanje slobode Award, which is awarded by Maja Maršićević Tasić Foundation to contribute to the victory of democracy in Serbia. She has been included in the "100 Most Powerful Women in Serbia" list of daily newspaper

Blic ''Blic'' (Cyrillic: Блиц, ) is a daily middle-market tabloid newspaper in Serbia. Founded in 1996, ''Blic'' is owned by Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, a joint venture between Ringier media corporation from Switzerland and Axel Springer AG ...

. Turajlić was also Assistant Minister of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Sports from 2001 to 2004 under Minister Gašo Knežević. In 2017, Turajlić was one of the founding members of the Movement of Free Citizens led by

References

External links

Nagrada za fijasko – VREME (http://www.vreme.co.rs/cms/view.php?id=888982)

100 Most powerful women in Serbia (100 Najmoćnijih žena u Srbiji) – Blic (http://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/100-najmocnijih-zena-u-srbiji/zb71yb0)

The other side of everything (Druga strana svega) (Movie) (http://www.othersideofeverything.com/)
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