Duygu Asena

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Duygu Asena (born April 19, 1946 in Istanbul ; † July 30, 2006 there ) was a Turkish journalist , writer and women's rights activist , see also women's rights in Turkey .

Asena comes from a middle-class Turkish family. Her grandfather was Ataturk's adjutant and later MP Ali Şevket Öndersev. She attended the private girls' high school Kadıköy Özel Kız Koleji and studied pedagogy in Istanbul.

In 1978 she founded the first Turkish women's magazine, Kadinca , which addressed sexuality , women's rights and violence against women. She then headed the magazines Onyedi and Kim in the mid-1980s .

Her novel The Woman Has No Name (1987; Turkish Kadının adı yok ) achieved a high readership, but was banned by the Turkish authorities because of " profanity ". Only after a two-year dispute was the book approved, published 40 times by 2006 and successfully filmed. Books by Duygu Asena have also been translated into other languages; in Germany the women's rights activist appeared in a translation by Barbara Yurtdaş .

After suffering for two years, she succumbed to a brain tumor in her hometown of Istanbul in 2006 .

Works

Selection, German editions

  • The woman has no name - a Turkish woman discovers the consequences of the small difference. Piper Publishing House. Munich, Zurich 1992. ISBN 3-492-11485-7
  • My love your love Piper Publishing House. Munich, Zurich 1994. ISBN 3-492-11792-9

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