Jülide Gülizar (''née'' Göksan; 8 April 1929 – 14 March 2011) was a Turkish anchorwoman and journalist. She was one of Turkey's first television anchors, as well as the first anchorwomen on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). Gülizar was the first anchorwoman to appear on television for TRT. She was a strong proponent of the use of standard Turkish in radio and television. She retired from TRT in 1982, but continued to work as a news presenter and teacher at other media organizations. Gülizar continued to produce and host her own television program until shortly before her death. She was also the author of several books, including ''Life, Thank You'', ''One Subject, One Guest'', ''Radios of Turkey Calling'', and ''Where are you going Türkçe''.

Life

Jülide Gülizar was born in

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, on 8 April 1929. She was educated in

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, and then attended Ankara Girls High School. She graduated from

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. Jülide Gülizar began her literary career with poetry (1950). While she was a sophomore, she published a monthly literary magazine called, With fifteen friends, including the poets Erdoğan Ünver and Hüseyin Yurdabak. Her poems were published in Bahçe magazine as well as in important literary magazines of the period such as Yedigün, Yücel, Başkent Ankara, Türk Dili, Varlık. In 1959, she collected her poems in the book Küçük Balıklar. She wrote her poems mostly in free verse. She married the poet Abdullah Rıza Ergüven, whom she met during her university years. Gülizar began her

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career on TRT radio in

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, Turkey, in 1956. She went on to become the first anchorwoman to appear on television for TRT. She was a strong proponent of the use of standard Turkish in radio and television. She retired from TRT in 1982, but continued to work as a news presenter and teacher at other media organizations. She worked at

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newspaper. Gülizar continued to produce and host her own television program until shortly before her death. She was also the author of several books, including ''Life, Thank You'', ''One Subject, One Guest'', ''Radios of Turkey Calling'', and ''Where are you going Türkçe''. Gülizar also taught at

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Faculty of Communication, which was established in 1997, and was a board member of the Turkish Contemporary Journalists Association. Gülizar died from

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at Hacettepe University Medical Faculty Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, on 14 March 2011, at the age of 82. Following the religious funeral service at

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, she was laid to rest at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gulizar, Julide Date of birth missing 1929 births 2011 deaths Turkish television journalists Turkish women journalists Turkish women writers Ankara University Faculty of Law alumni People from Adana Turkish broadcast news analysts Burials at Karşıyaka Cemetery, Ankara Deaths from pneumonia in Turkey