Şerife Bacı

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Monument by sculptor Metin Yurdanur in İnebolu Park .

Şerife Bacı , also Şerife Kadın , (* around 1900 in Kastamonu ; † December 1921 there ) is a Turkish folk heroine and martyr who fought in the Turkish War of Liberation .

Life

Şerife Bacı ("Sister Şerife") was born in Seydiler County. Your date of birth is unknown. She was married at the age of sixteen. Only two months after their wedding, World War I broke out and her husband was drafted into military service. Six months after the separation, Serife Bacı received news that her husband had died in the Battle of Gallipoli . The villagers arranged a new marriage with the war veteran Topal Yusuf (“Yusuf the Lame”), who had lost his left leg and one eye in a bomb explosion during the war. Three years after the marriage, the couple had a daughter Elif.

In the harsh winter of 1921, the residents of Serife's home village were asked to help transport ammunition for the Greco-Turkish War . Serife Bacı and her daughter joined a trek that was supposed to bring cannonballs from the port of İnebolu on the Black Sea to Ankara in ox carts . Again and again the trek had to stop due to the heavy snowfall and people had to spend the night in the open area. According to the legend, draft animals repeatedly died or refused to go on, and so Şerife Bacı had to pull the cart herself in parts. She was found frozen to death near the Kastamonu barracks in December 1921.

memory

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the republic, the district administrator of Seydiler had a relief hung up in 1973, which was supposed to commemorate Serife Bacı. In 1990 the sculptor Tankut Öktem created a monument on Republic Square in Kastamonu, commemorating Ataturk , Şerife Bacı and the achievement of the women of Kastamonu in the war of liberation. In addition, on December 4, 2001, a memorial was erected in Inebolu Park in memory of the “Martyr Serife Bacı”, which the artist Metin Yurdanur created at the request of the Jandarma Commander-in-Chief Aytaç Yalman .

In February 2012, 12 women from Kastamonu marched the 105 km from İnebolu to Kastamonu in three days under winter conditions to commemorate the achievements of Serife Bacı.

In and around Kastamonu, many public institutions and schools bear the name of Serife Bacı, including a primary school and a high school as well as two hospitals in Kastamonu, the İstanbul Büyükşehir Şehit Şerife Bacı Lisesi and a Lise in Ankara.

Web links

Commons : Monument to Serife Bacı  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Şerife Bacı , Biyografya (English)
  2. ↑ a b 40 kadın Şerife Bacı için yürüyecek , Hürriyet , February 16, 2012 (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Fethican Yıldırım: Kadınlar Şerife Bacı için 105 km yürüyecek , Hürriyet , February 19, 2012 (Turkish)
personal data
SURNAME Şerife Bacı
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish martyr in the war of liberation
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kastamonu
DATE OF DEATH December 1921
Place of death Kastamonu