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She retired in 1985, having produced a collection of approximately 200,000 images. [2] She died at her home on Hanımefendi Sokak in Şişli in 1996 and is buried in Şişli Armenian Cemetery. [2] Maryam Sahinyan is considered the first woman photographer in Turkey. [1] She knew French, Italian, Armenian and Turkish. [2]
19 May – Beşiktaş won the championship of the Turkish football league [2] 9 June – Socialist International summit in Istanbul sponsored by SHP; 23 June – After the party congress of ANAP Yıldırım Akbulut was replaced by Mesut Yılmaz in the government; 6 July – Lale Aytaman was appointed as the Muğla Province governor. She was the ...
In 1990 she got to know networks of the PKK and was arrested, but released shortly after in 1991. [5] On the 9 May 1991 she entered the PKK in the Cudi Mountains, Şırnak. [5] In 1992, she was sent as a leader of a small group to Şemdinli. In the 1990s she was often featured in PKK publications, including Serxwebûn and Berxwedan magazines. [6]
Turkish women continue to be the victims of rape and honour killings, especially in Turkish Kurdistan, where most crimes against women in Turkey take place. [4] Research by scholars [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and government agencies [ 7 ] indicate widespread domestic violence among the people of Turkey , as well as in the Turkish diaspora .
Tansu Çiller, Turkey's first and only female prime minister, who held the highest position in the cabinet. With Nihat Erim's appointment of Türkan Akyol as the Minister of Health and Social Assistance in the 33rd Government of Turkey, which was established on March 26, 1971, a woman took part in the government as a minister for the first time.
Thousands of Turkish Cypriot women and girls were thus sent to Palestine until the late 1950s. [244] Turkish family surnames in Palestine often end with the letter's "ji" (e.g., al-Batniji and al-Shorbaji) whilst other common names include al-Gharbawi, Tarzi, Turk, Birkdar, Jukmadar, Radwan, Jasir and al-Jamasi. [242]
Iraqi Kurds fleeing to Turkey in April 1991, during the Gulf War. Immigration to Turkey has historical roots in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.Beginning in the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century, an estimated 10 million Ottoman Muslim citizens, the Muhacir and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire emigrated to Thrace and ...
According to British journalist Robert Fisk, the only reporter present, in April 1991, a British Marines unit consisting of about thirty men was tasked with distributing relief supplies to 3,000 Kurds and Assyrians in Yeşilova under the watch of the Turkish military, but they found themselves in direct confrontation with the Turks.