Turkish Women

Dear Visitor:

Daughters of Ataturk was founded to promote Turkish women and foreign women married to Turkish men. Overseas Turkish women are found throughout the world, as professors at universities, as engineers, as doctors, as computer scientists, as stay-at-home moms. Even though they are productive and active members of the society and community they live in, their Turkishness is not apparent.

The biographies are grouped as follows:

Turkey and North Cyprus
US and Canada
Europe and Latin America
Middle East and Africa
Asia / Australia / New Zealand

Daughters of Ataturk is proud to present the following biographies. If you would like to be included in this section, please send us your biography and/or resume with your picture if possible.

If you wish to include others in this section, please send us their e-mail address and we would get in touch with them.


First Woman Supreme Court Justice

Women in Turkey make up a larger proportion of the country's lawyers and doctors than they do in the United States. They also permeate the bureaucracy and are active in politics and journalism. In Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini may declare that Islam bars women from becoming judges, but the Koran has not stopped the Turks--who are 99-percent Moslem--from electing the world's first woman supreme-court justice: Firuzan Ikinciogullari.

T.D. Allman in Geo: Jan 81 Reader's Digest


Sema Karaoglu