Makbule Atadan

Makbûle (left) with her mother Zübeyde Hanım and brother Mustafa Kemal (1905)

Makbûle Atadan (* 1885 in Thessaloniki , Vilâyet Saloniki , Ottoman Empire ; † January 18, 1956 in Ankara ) was the sister of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of Turkey . She was his only sister reaching adulthood, while her other four siblings died young.

Life

She grew up as the daughter of Ali Rıza Efendi in the then Ottoman Selanik (now Thessaloniki) and after the Balkan Wars she moved to Istanbul with her mother Zübeyde Hanım .

After the founding of the republic in 1923, she and her mother moved to the new capital Ankara, supported by her brother Mustafa Kemal Pascha, who became Turkey's first president on Republic Day .

In 1930 Makbûle Hanım became politically active by joining the newly formed opposition Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası ( Free Republican Party SCF) of Fethi Okyar . However, her political career soon ended when Fethi Bey dissolved the party a few months later.

In 1935 Makbûle married Mecdi Boysan , a member of the CHP in the Turkish Grand National Assembly . She later lived in Camlı Köşk ( Glass Pavilion ), a villa built for her in 1936 in the garden of the presidential Çankaya Palace .

She published her memoirs in her books “Büyük Kardeşim Ataturk” ( Ataturk, My Big Brother ; 1952) and “Ağabeyim Mustafa Kemal” ( Mustafa Kemal, My Brother ; 1952). Makbûle Atadan died on January 18, 1956 in Ankara at the age of 71 and was later buried in the Cebeci municipal cemetery .

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Photo gallery , from left to right: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's adopted son Abdurrahim Tuncak , Makbule Atadan, Abdurrahim's daughter Nuray Çulha, Vatan newspaper.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Mürşit Balabanlılar, Şebnem Kandır, Mine Söğüt, Türkiye'nin Yetmiş Yılı: 1923–1993: Gün Gün Cumhuriyet Tarihi , 1. cilt, Hürgüç Gazetecilik, 1994, p. 142.

↑ ^a ^b Çankaya Palace ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Turkish ) @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Atadan, Makbule
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Makbûle Hanım
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sister of the founder of Turkey
DATE OF BIRTH	1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thessaloniki , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1956
Place of death	Ankara

[Yetmiş-1] Mürşit Balabanlılar, Şebnem Kandır, Mine Söğüt, Türkiye'nin Yetmiş Yılı: 1923–1993: Gün Gün Cumhuriyet Tarihi , 1. cilt, Hürgüç Gazetecilik, 1994, p. 142.