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Ayşe Olcay Tiryaki (1 September 1955 – 24 March 2008) was a Turkish professor of clinical
immunology Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of Immune system, immune systems in all Organism, organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the Physiology, physiological functioning of the immune system in ...
and
rheumatology Rheumatology () is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatology covers more than 100 different complex diseases, c ...
. She was an academic at the Faculty of Medicine in Ankara University. She was awarded a prize by the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies, support and conduct research and development, and to ...
(TÜBİTAK) in 1999 for her research on the inflammatory disorder Behçet’s disease. She was murdered by her daughter in 2008.


Personal life

Ayşe Olcay Tiryaki was born in
Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from 'old' and 'city') is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 821 315 (Odunpazari + Tebebasi), with a metropolitan population of 921 630. The city is l ...
, Turkey on 1 September 1955. She had a sister Fatoş Tiryaki. She married to surgeon Semih Aydıntuğ in 1981, and they had one daughter Başak together. The couple divorced in 2005. Başak lived with her father until he remarried, and then with her mother.


Education

Tiryaki graduated from
TED Ankara College TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. It consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. Its İncek Campus, considered sizeable with 141,000 square meters of enclosed and over 309,000 square ...
in 1974, and entered Faculty of Medicine at Ankara University the same year. After completing her undergraduate education in 1980, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at the same faculty until 1982. She then worked as an internal medicine specialist at the Faculty of Medicine from 1983 to 1988. She completed a compulsory service in the Immunology Department in 1989. Between April and July the same year, she conducted research in the Immunology Institute at the
Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...
in Germany. She specialized in
Clinical immunology Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; ...
between 1990 and 1992, and became a
subspecialist A subspecialty or subspeciality (see spelling differences) is a narrow field of professional knowledge/skills within a specialty of trade, and is most commonly used to describe the increasingly more diverse medical specialties. A subspecialist is a ...
in immunology.


Career

After completing a
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Fellowship at the
University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...
, she was appointed on 4 February 1992 as an associate professor in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Ankara University. On 5 October 1992, she becameassociate professor, and on 4 September 1995, she was appointed to associate professor position. She was promoted to full professor on 16 June 1998.> She later served as vice dean of the medical school. She was also coordinator for MEDINE, the thematic network on Medical Education in Europe). Olcay Tiryaki’s medical research focused on connective tissue disorders and inflammatory conditions, include
Behçet's disease Behçet's disease (BD) is a type of inflammatory disorder which affects multiple parts of the body. The most common symptoms include painful sores on the mucous membranes of the mouth and other parts of the body, inflammation of parts of the ...
and
lupus Lupus, formally called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. Symptoms vary among people and may be mild to severe. Common ...
. She was awarded a prize by the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of Turkey whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies, support and conduct research and development, and to ...
(TÜBİTAK) in 1999 for her research on Behçet's disease. She served as an assistant dean at the Faculty of Medicine in Ankara University between January 2000 and May 2005. She published 38 international articles, one international book, 59 international printed communiqués, 42 articles in Turkish, 26 books in Turkish, one book translation and 45 printed communiqués in Turkish. She also served as coordinator in a book.


Death

Olcay Tiryaki was found dead as her throat slit at her home in Beysukent at 4:00 hours local time on 24 March 2008. She was stabbed by her daughter, 21-year old Başak Aydıntuğ, who was a law student at
Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...
, and had received psychological treatment in 2005 and 2007. Başak Aydıntuğ initially claimed an intruder had committed the murder. But she later confessed when her fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. Ayşe Olcay Tiryaki was buried at
Karşıyaka Cemetery The Karşıyaka Cemetery () is a modern burial ground located at Karşıyaka neighborhood in Yenimahalle district of Ankara Province, Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West ...
in Ankara after a memorial ceremony held at the Faculty of Medicine of Ankara University and the religious service in
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.


See also

*
List of Turkish physicians {{short description, None A list of notable Turkish physicians: A * Abdullah Cevdet Karlıdağ *Aziz Sancar * Abdülaziz Efendi * Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar * Yıldırım Aktuna * Ali Rıza Pasin * Asaf Ataseven * Asım Akin * Ayhan Sökmen * A ...


References


External links


Page at the University of Ankara
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