Bahriye Üçok

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Monument to Bahriye Üçok in Ankara

Bahriye Üçok (* 1919 in Trabzon ; † October 6, 1990 in Ankara ) was a Turkish theologian , politician , author , columnist , women's rights activist and prominent intellectual. The background to her murder in 1990 is still unclear.

Life

After attending elementary school in Ordu , she went to Kandilli Kız Lisesi (Kandilli Girls' High School) in Istanbul . She then studied Islamic history of the Middle Ages and Turkish history at the Institute for Philology, History and Geography at Ankara University and worked for eleven years as a high school teacher in Samsun and Ankara.

Career

From 1953 she worked as an assistant in the theological faculty of Ankara University. In 1957 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on Female Leaders in Islamic Countries and gave up her position in 1960 after increasing threats. In 1965 she became a lecturer and finally a professor, making her the first female university teacher in this faculty.

Üçok spoke fluent Arabic and Persian and, as a critic of Islam, translated the Koran . She was a columnist for the left-Kemalist newspaper Cumhuriyet .

1977 joined the center-left Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ("Republican People's Party", CHP). After the military coup in 1980 she co-founded the Halkçı Parti ("Populist Party") and was elected to Parliament in 1983 as a member of Ordu . In 1990 she moved to the social democrat Halkçı Parti ("Social Democratic Populist Party", SHP).

In 1990, after a television discussion in which she declared Islamic veiling ( hijab ) not to be mandatory, Üçok received several threats from a militant organization called İslami Hareket (“Islamic Movement”).

assassination

On October 6, 1990, Üçok was killed by a package bomb on her doorstep; the murder is still unsolved. The funeral service took place on October 9th in the Maltepe Mosque and was buried in the Karşıyaka Cemetery.

bibliography

  • İslâm'dan Dönenler ve İlk Yalancı Peygamber ( Departure from Islam and the First False Prophet) (1967) Ankara
  • İslâm Devletinde Kadın Hükümdarlar (Female Rulers in Islamic Countries)
  • İslam Tarihi (History of Islam)
  • İslam Tarihinde Emeviler - Abbasiler (Umayyads - Abbasids in the History of Islam)
  • Ataturk'ün İzinde Bir Arpa Boyu , 270 S., (1985), Cem Publishing, Istanbul ISBN 978-975-406-467-4
  • Aly Mazahéri : Ortaçağda Müslümanların Günlük Yaşayışları (Muslim Everyday Life in the Middle Ages)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Schlötzer : headscarf and mini skirt. The majority of citizens on the Bosporus do not see any contradiction between their beliefs and the desire for freedom and democracy, Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 19, 2001, p. 10
  2. ↑ Christiane Schlötzer: The enemy in their own people. The secret statutes of the Turkish Security Council permit “all kinds of psychological measures against public enemies”, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 1, 2003, p. 7
  3. ^ Edda Güzeldere: Printed by Fathers and Brothers, Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 24, 2004, p. 34

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personal data
SURNAME Üçok, Bahriye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish theologian, author and politician (CHP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Trabzon
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1990
Place of death Ankara