Emine Semiye

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Emine Semiye , occasionally Emine Semiye Önasya or Emine Vahide , (born March 28, 1864 in Istanbul , † 1944 there ) was a Turkish writer and suffragette.

Life

Emine Semiye was born in 1866 as the second daughter of the Ottoman statesman, historian and legal scholar Ahmed Cevdet Pascha and his wife Adviye Rabia Hanım. Her older sister was the writer Fatma Aliye Topuz . Her brother Ali Sedat was a politician and sat on the State Council. Emine Semiye was taught by private tutors and studied psychology and sociology in France and Switzerland. She was one of the first Ottoman women to study in Europe.

From 1882 Emine Semiye worked as a Turkish and literature teacher in Constantinople and other provinces. She worked as an overseer in girls' schools and was a volunteer auxiliary nurse at Şişli Etfal Hospital during the Balkan Wars . She also began writing in the 1880s. Her writings on politics, education and women's rights were printed in newspapers such as the Mütâlaa in Thessaloniki , where she lived in the 1890s, and the Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete (German daily newspaper for women ) after the constitutional monarchy was proclaimed in 1908 . She was editor-in-chief of the magazines Mütâlaa (1896) and Kadın (1908-1910). She also wrote novels, short stories, essays and poems. In 1893 she wrote the mathematical textbook Hülâsa-i İlm-i Hisap . Her best-known novels are Sefâlet (1908) and Gayyâ Kuyusu .

Together with her sister Fatma Aliye, Emine Semiye was one of the defining figures in the Turkish women's rights movement. She founded several charities to help women and a girls' school.

After it was founded, she became a member of the progressive political organization Committee for Unity and Progress and later the Ottoman Democratic Party (Fırka-i İbad). In 1920 she became a member of the board of directors of the Turkish Association of Journalists. At the beginning of the 20th century she lived repeatedly in Paris, where she had fled from the political turmoil of the dissolving Ottoman Empire . After the proclamation of the republic, Emine Semiye worked as a Turkish teacher at schools in Edirne , Sivas , Ordu , Adana and most recently at secondary schools in Istanbul.

Emine Semiye Önasya died in a hospital in Istanbul in 1944.

family

Emine Semiye was married twice. Her first husband was called Mustafa Bey, the second husband was Reşit Pascha, temporarily governor of Sivas, Rhodes and later Edirne, from whom she divorced in 1911. She had a son with every husband.

Publications

  • Muallime
  • Bîkes
  • Sefâlet . 1908
  • Gayyâ Kuyusu
  • Bir Mütehasisenin Tefekkürâtı
  • Terbiye-i Etfâle Ait Üç Hikâye
  • Dilşâd Sultan
  • Selânik Hâtıraları
  • Hürriyet Kokuları
  • Kalem Tecrübeleri
  • Hülâsa-i İlm-i Hisap . 1893

literature

  • Şefika Kurnaz: Emine Semiye . Timas Yayinlari, Istanbul 2008
  • Salim Aydüz: Önasya, Emine Semiye . In: Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi . Yapı Kredi Yayını, Istanbul 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Emine Semiye. (No longer available online.) Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Şahika Karaca: Modernleşme Döneminde Bir Kadın Yazarın Portresi: Emine Semiye Hanım , Bilig, Çukurova Üniversitesi Türkoloji Araştirmalari Merkezi, Vol. 57 (2011), pp. 115-134
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Şefika Kurnaz: Osmanlı kadın hareketi'nin öncü isilerinden Emine Semiye'nin siyasal portresi , Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, accessed on March 23, 2020 (PDF)
  4. ↑ Biography at biyografya.com, accessed March 23, 2020
  5. ^ Irina Livezeanu: Women and gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia . AWSS, 2007 ( online at Google Books )
  6. ↑ Elif Bilgin: An analysis of Turkish modernity through discourses of masculinities . Dissertation, Middle East Technical University, 2004 ( online as PDF )
  7. ^ Ayfer Karakaya-Stump: Debating Progress in a 'Serious Newspaper for Muslim Women': The Periodical "Kadin" of the Post-Revolutionary Salonica, 1908-1909 . In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies . Vol. 30, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), pp. 155-181, here p. 166
  8. ↑ Alexander Safarian: On the History of Turkish Feminism . In: Iran & the Caucasus . Vol. 11, No. 1 (2007), pp. 141–151, here p. 147
  9. ^ Only Bilge Criss: Istanbul under Allied Occupation, 1918–1923 . Brill, Boston 1999; P. 24
personal data
SURNAME Emine Semiye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Önasya, Emine Semiye; Emine Vahide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish writer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Istanbul