Bahriye Üçok
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
- ^ 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
- ↑ 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
- ^ Edda Güzeldere: Printed by Fathers and Brothers, Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 24, 2004, p. 34
Web links
- Bahriye Üçok (1919–1990) on Kim Kimdir? (Who is who?) - (Turkish)
- Bahriye Üçok (October 6, 1990) on biyografi.net (Turkish)
personal data | |
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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 |