Mihri Pektaş

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Mihri Pektaş (1939)

Mihri İffet Pektaş (* 1895 in Bursa ; † July 4, 1979 ), also known as Mihri Bektaş , was a Turkish politician. She was one of the first 18 women MPs in Turkey and a founding member of the UN Women's Rights Commission .

Youth and professional activity

Mihri İffet was born in Bursa in western Turkey and grew up in the final phase of the Ottoman Empire . After graduating from Robert College in Arnavutköy in 1916, she taught Turkish at the same institution until 1918. After 1920, she worked as an English teacher at various schools in Istanbul . She also worked as a nurse on the side .

Political career

Turkish women were given the right to vote in local elections on April 3, 1930. Four years later, on December 5, 1934, they obtained full suffrage , earlier than in many other European countries. Mihri Pektaş joined the Kemalist Republican People's Party (CHP) and was elected MP for the eastern Anatolian province of Malatya in the parliamentary elections on February 8, 1935 . She was one of the first 18 female parliamentarians in Turkey. She kept her mandate in the two following parliamentary terms until August 5, 1946. As a result, Pektaş worked again as a teacher. Between 1946 and 1950 she was a founding member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) and, in this role, also played a key role in the formulation of the UN Human Rights Charter .

Private life

Pektaş was married to Hüseyin Pektaş. He was a history teacher at Robert College and worked as an interpreter for the Turkish delegation during the contract negotiations in Lausanne from 1922 to 1923. Mihri Pektaş was the mother of two children. She died on July 4, 1979.

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b blog about the history of the Turkish Republic
  2. ↑ a b Türkiye'nin 75 yılı , Tempo Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1998, pp. 48, 59, 250
  3. ↑ İlk kadın milletvekillerimiz ( tr ) Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  4. ^ Website of the Turkish parliament
  5. ↑ https://www.pressenza.com/2018/12/women-who-shaped-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights/ Portraits of women politicians who were involved in drawing up the UN Human Rights Charter
  6. ↑ Dr. Fethi Tevetoğlu, November 1, 1987 "volume: IV, November 1987", archived December 12, 2013, retrieved February 22, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pektaş, Mihri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mihri Bektaş
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bursa
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1979