Nefise Akçelik

Nefise Akçelik ( 1955 in Muratlı , Tekirdağ - October 5, 2003 ) was a Turkish civil engineer.

Life

Akçelik attended the Erenköy Kız Lisesi girls' high school in Istanbul. She then studied civil engineering at Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi in Trabzon . She was 16 years old when she enrolled. Akçelik was the only woman there. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1976. In 1978 she married Ethem Akçelik and the couple had two children. In 1989 she graduated from Gazi Üniversitesi in Ankara with a master’s degree .

Akçelik worked from 1978 at the Turkish Road Construction Authority in the department for planning and building road tunnels. In the course of time, she rose to head of department in the agency. She worked on a total of 200 tunnel projects, wrote feasibility studies and designed and controlled, for example, the construction of two tunnels on the route from Isparta to Antalya, which lead over the Taurus . She also wrote two books on tunneling. Akçelik was also jointly responsible for formulating the building regulations for tunnels in Turkey. One of the tunnels she built was named after her death, the "Nefise Akçelik Tüneli".

Akçelik was, according to her husband, a socialist, anti-capitalist, anti-militarist and internationalist. She died on October 5, 2003 of complications from cancer.

Web link

• Türkiye'nin en uzun tüneli BBG evi gibi ( Milliyet daily newspaper from December 6, 2011, Turkish)