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Erenköy Girls High School
Erenköy Girls High School (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Erenköy Kız Anadolu Lisesi'') is a public girls high school in the Erenköy, Kadıköy, Erenköy neighborhood of Kadıköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 1911 during the Ottoman Empire, it is the oldest surviving girls high school in the country and the only girls high school in Istanbul. History Erenköy Girls High School was established 1911 in the Mansion of Nemizade Zihni Bey in the Kabasakal neighborhood of Istanbul. It was later renamed Model School for Girls () and moved to the Mansion of Rıdvan Pasha. In 1916, the school was finally named Erenköy Girls High School (). The school then moved to a mansion purchased for 7,500 gold coins by the Ministry of Education from Chamberlain (office), Mabeyinci Faik Bey. The school dormitory was extended by purchasing the mansion of Hajji, Hacı Hüseyin Pasha from its last owner Hatice Sultan (daughter of Murad V). Education continued at scattered sites after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadıköy
Kadıköy () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district on the Asian side of Istanbul Province, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 25 km2, and its population is 467,919 (2023). It is a large and populous area in the Asian side of Istanbul, on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara. It partially faces the historic city centre of Fatih on the European side of the Bosporus. It is bordered by the districts of Üsküdar, to the northwest, Ataşehir, to the northeast, and Maltepe, Istanbul, Maltepe, to the southeast. Kadıköy was known in classical antiquity and during the Roman Empire, Roman and Byzantine Empire, Byzantine eras as Chalcedon (). Chalcedon was known as the 'city of the blind'. The settlement has been under control of many empires, finally being taken by the Ottomans before the fall of Constantinople. At first, Chalcedon was Rural area, rural, but with time it Urbanization, urbanized. Kadıköy separated from the Üsküdar district in 1928. One o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sezgi Sena Akay
Sezgi Sena Akay (born 31 October 1994) is a Turkish actress, former professional volleyball player, presenter, and model who was crowned Best Model of the World 2012. She is the youngest and 42nd titleholder in the pageant's history and the fourth woman from Turkey to win Best Model of the World. She previously won Best Model of Turkey 2012. She began her modelling career in Paris. She started playing volleyball at a very young age. She played for Galatasaray S.K. for five years and later for Fenerbahçe S.K. Women's under-18 Volleyball Team for a year. In 2014, she played Nevin Karatay in the Kanal D romantic drama and thriller series ''Zeytin Tepesi'' (). Her role Nevin Karatay was equivalent to that of Elena Monforte in the original Italian version ''Le tre rose di Eva'' (). In 2015, she hosted the ''Magazin Postası'' programme on FOX. Between 2015 and 2016, she was cast as lead character in SHOW TV drama series ''Acı Aşk'' (Turkish: Bitter Love), an adaptation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzan Emine Kaube
Suzan Emine Kaube (born Emine Ese; 1942 in Pendik, Turkey) is a Turkish-German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ... writer, painter and pedagogue. As a pedagogue, her works has dealt with cultural integration. She has made several exhibitions in Germany and Turkey. Works *''Tanz im Westwind oder du gibst mir erst Almosen, dann die Hölle'' (1999) * ''Uyuyan Göl'' * ''Tanz im Westwind'' * ''Auf türkisgrünen Flügeln'' * ''Heimlich und kühl'' * ''Turkuvaz Kanatlılar'' (2011) External links * *Künstlerhomepage Living people People from Pendik Turkish writers Turkish emigrants to Germany Erenköy Girls High School alumni German women writers Turkish women writers 1942 births {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jale İnan
Jale İnan (1 February 1914 – 26 February 2001) was a Turkish archaeologist, and she is considered to be the first Turkish woman to have been active in the discipline. She led excavations in Perga and Side which resulted in the expansion of the Antalya Museum. Her restoration work on the Temple of Apollo in Side was noted for its significance to Turkish heritage. Her scientific work on the "Weary Hercules" statue in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston formed the legal basis for return of the bust of the statue to the Antalya Museum to be reunited with the statue's base. The Antalya Women's Museum has an annual award in her honour which recognizes the woman of the year. Early life Jale Ogan was born on 1 February 1914 in Istanbul to Mesture Hanım and as their second daughter Her father was the curator and director of the İzmir Archeology Museum for many years and later became the director of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. During the beginning decades of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gülben Ergen
Gülben Ergen (; born 25 August 1972) is a Turkish singer and actress. Ergen started her career as an actress, and later decided to enter the music industry. She started her music career as a headliner. In 2001, for her role as Melek in the comedy series ''Dadı'' which is an adaptation of ''The Nanny'', she won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Butterfly Awards. In 2002, the lead single from her album ''Sade ve Sadece'' was awarded the Best Composition of the Year at the Turkey Music Awards. In 2004 Ergen's album ''Uçacaksın'' sold 600,000 copies and received a diamond certification from Mü-Yap. In 2009, Ergen and Oğuzhan Koç released the song "Giden Günlerim Oldu" which became a number-one hit on Türkçe Top 20. As of 2015, her albums have sold 2 million copies in total. Life and career 1972–96: Early life and career beginnings Gülben Ergen was born in Istanbul on 25 August 1972. After attending Erenköy Girls High School, she got enrolled at the Kadıköy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhibbe Darga
Muhibbe Darga (13 June 1921 – 6 March 2018) was a Turkish archaeologist. She was the granddaughter of Darugazade Mehmet Emin Bey, Sultan Abdülhamid's first chamberlain, the poet and translator of Jules Verne’s novels from French into Turkish. Darga was born in Istanbul in June 1921 and was brought up by French governesses. She studied in Paris and Istanbul. Her father was a doctor and because of her father’s professional obligations, she traveled through Anatolia in the 1930s with her family. Roman and Greek history, debates on art and literature were the staple fair at the dinner table of this intellectual family of the late Ottoman era. Moreover, the family celebrated all religious rituals of the city like Christmas, Easter, Ramadan and sacrificial festivals, organizing fancy dress parties. Darge attended Istanbul University’s Hittitology Department at the beginning of the 1940s. She would meet many notables of Archeology at this faculty, founded by Prof. Helmuth Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Europe
Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by , the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. After the initial twelve-person jury couldn't decide between 10 contestants, a runoff election was held where Murnau chose the winner. Murnau ended up choosing Štefica Vidačić of Yugoslavia as the winner and the first ever Miss Europe. Miss Europe was later re-established in December 1928 by French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874–1946), who also created, in 1920, what by 1927 had become the Miss France pageant. Miss Europe, under de Waleffe, was first held at the Paris Opera with participants from 18 countries. The first contest under de Waleffe did not occur until February 1929. The contest was interrupted by the onset of World War II but was later re-established, after de Waleffe died, by Roger Zeiler and Claude Berr who founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günseli Başar
Günseli Başar (22 January 1932 – 20 April 2013) was a Turkish women, Turkish beauty contestant and columnist who was crowned Miss Turkey 1951 and Miss Europe 1952. Biography Başar was born on February 22, 1932, to an officer's family in Istanbul, where her father was stationed. However, her birth was registered some time later in Erzurum due to her father's transfer. Her great-grand uncle was Grand Vizier Halil Rifat Pasha, founder of the almshouse () in Istanbul and commissioner of the İzmir Clock Tower. She is of Rumelia, Rumelian Turkish, Circassians, Circassian and Georgians in Turkey, Georgian descent. Günseli Başar completed her secondary education at Erenköy Girls High School in Istanbul. While studying sculpture at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul, Günseli participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper ''Cumhuriyet'', and won the title Miss Turkey 1951 on October 13, 1951. The next year, she represented her countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayten Alpman
Ayten Alpman (10 October 1929 – 20 April 2012) was a Turkish jazz and pop singer who gained fame in the 1970s with the song "''Memleketim''" ("My Country") during the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation. Biography Born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1929, Alpman worked as a soloist for Istanbul Radio after finishing high school. She began her singing career during the 1950s and was encouraged by Turkish producer Arif Mardin to sing jazz songs in the first years of her career. She released her first record, "''Sayonara/Passion Flower''", in 1959. In 1972, Alpman released her song "''Memleketim''" ("My Country") which became immensely popular in Cyprus and Turkey in 1974 during the Cyprus conflict. She rarely entered the recording studio, and had released only two LPs throughout her career. Her most notable songs include, "''Sensiz Olmam''", "''Yanımda Olsa''", and "''Ben Varım''". Alpman's latest release was a compilation of her best-known singles released by Ada Music in 1999. Person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Turkish Politics
Women in Turkey have an active participation in national politics, and the number of women in the Turkish parliament has been increasing steadily in recent elections. Background The Republic of Turkey was founded on the heartland of the disintegrating Ottoman Empire on 29 October 1923. Although the political influence of some Valide Sultans (queen mothers) over the Ottoman Sultans was considerable, especially during the era known as the Sultanate of Women, women had no chance to serve in any official political post in the Ottoman era. One notable female political activist in the first days of the Republican era was Nezihe Muhiddin, who founded the first women's party in Turkey in June 1923; however, it was never legalized because the Republic was not officially declared yet. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic initiated a series of reforms to modernize the country, including civil and political equality for women for the first time. On 17 February 1926, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
