Turkish women in academics refers to
Turkish women
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who make
scientific research
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or teach in the universities in
Turkey
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and abroad.
Background
During the
Ottoman Empire
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era women had no chance to teach in the universities except for the very last years of the empire when
Committee of Union and Progress
The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, translit=İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti, script=Arab), later the Union and Progress Party ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى فرقهسی, translit=İttihad ve Tera ...
(İttihat ve Terakki Partisi) came to power. The first Turkish woman who was able to teach in
Istanbul University (then known as Darülfunun) was
Halide Edib (later Halide Edib Adıvar) in 1918. But Halide Edib chose to join the nationalist forces of
Mustafa Kemal
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, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Given name ...
(later Atatürk) in
Anatolia
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rather than to stay in
Istanbul
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. During the Republican era the number of academics increased.
Present situation
During the opening ceremony of 4th International Congress of Women Rectors in 2010, Gülsün Sağlamer, the chairperson of the organization committee, said that the percentage of women professors in Turkey was 27% and this percentage was higher than most other countries. She added that the percentage of women rectors however was only 10 out of 168 and this percentage needed to be increased. Since then, the number of women professors has been on the rise and in the 2011-2012 academic year, the number of Turkish women professors increased to 4729, which corresponds to 28%.
Including other titles however (such as associate professor, instructor etc.) the percentage is much higher. According to
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
a survey carried by
Thomson-Reuters
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Thomson Reuters was crea ...
reveals that the percentage of female academics is 47.5% which is one of the highest in the world.
List of some academics
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Afet İnan
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Asuman Özdağlar
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Aysel Ekşi
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Ayşe Erzan
Ayşe Erzan (born 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.
She has received a number of awards including a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2003 and a Rammal Award in 2009.
Biography
Ayşe Erzan was born in 1949 in Ankara. Following ...
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Ayşe Soysal
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Bahriye Üçok
Bahriye Üçok (1919 – October 6, 1990) was a Turkish academic of theology, left-wing politician, writer, columnist, and women's rights activist whose assassination in 1990 remains unresolved.
Early life and education
Born in Trabzon, Bahriye ...
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Behice Boran
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Betül Kaçar
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Bilge Yıldız
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Birgül Ayman Güler
Birgül Ayman Güler (born 1 June 1961) is a female Turkish academic and politician.
Life
Birgül Ayman was born to İlyas and Zehra in Bergama ilçe (district) of İzmir Province, Turkey on 1 June 1961.
After obtaining her bachelor's degree i ...
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Canan Dağdeviren
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Derya Akkaynak
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Elza Erkip
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Feryal Özel
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F. Tulga Ocak
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Gülsün Sağlamer
Gülsün Sağlamer (born in 1945) is a Turkish academic, the third female rector in Turkey.
Life
Sağlamer was born in 1945 in Trabzon. After finishing primary and secondary education in her home city she obtained her MS from the School of Arch ...
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Güzin Dino
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Halet Çambel
Halet Çambel (27 August 1916 – 12 January 2014) was a Turkish archaeologist and Olympic fencer. She was the first woman with a Muslim background to compete in the Olympic Games.
Private life
Çambel was born in Berlin, German Empire on ...
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Halide Edib Adıvar
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Ioanna Kuçuradi
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Janet Akyüz Mattei
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Lale Aytaman
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Lale Orta
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Leyla Neyzi
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Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
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Naşide Gözde Durmuş
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Necla Pur
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Nermin Abadan Unat
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Nesrin Nas
Nesrin Nas (born 1958) is a Turkish female academic in economics, politician and the former leader of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP).
She was born in the Central Anatolian town of Bünyan in Kayseri Province. Her father's name ...
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Nur Serter
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Nükhet Ruacan
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Pakize Tarzi
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Paris Pişmiş
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Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian ( hy, Մարի Սուքիասեան) in 1911, in Ortaköy, Istanbul. She comp ...
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Remziye Hisar
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Tansu Çiller
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Tülay Adalı
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Türkan Akyol
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Türkan Saylan
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Saffet Rıza Alpar
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Serap Yazıcı
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Şule Kut Şule Kut is the Rector of Okan University. Until 2010, she worked in Istanbul Bilgi University as a professor in International Relations, specifically on Turkish politics and the Balkans. She had been the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Admin ...
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Zeynep Ahunbay
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Zeynep Çelik-Butler
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