Nezihe Muhiddin

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Nezihe Muhiddin (1910s or early 1920s)

Nezihe Muhiddin , also Nezihe Muhittin Tepedelengil, (* 1889 in Istanbul ; † February 10, 1958 there ) was an Ottoman and Turkish women's rights activist, journalist, author and politician. She is considered to be one of the founders of the Turkish women's movement .

Life

Nezihe Muhiddin was born in 1889 as the daughter of a civil servant in the Kandilli district of Istanbul. She attended elementary school there and then received private lessons. After training as a teacher, she worked in this profession for a few years until she became General Secretary of the Ottoman Union for the Protection of Women.

In May / June 1923, Nezihe Muhiddin founded the first Turkish party in the emerging republic, the Kadınlar Halk Fırkası (“Women's People's Party”), which was supposed to stand up for the rights of women. But the party was not admitted because it was considered too radical. Nezihe Muhiddin then founded the Türk Kadınlar Birliği (Turkish Women's Union). The association should continue the work started. In 1927 the Union decided to send a male feminist into the running for the general election. However, this failed after the potential candidate withdrew his approval for the candidacy after meeting Ataturk. The Turkish government had since withdrawn its support from the Union and went on a confrontational course. After Nezihe Muhiddin repeatedly vigorously called for equal rights for women and refused to withdraw their demands, the Union's premises were searched by police and the documents were confiscated.

From 1924 to 1927 Nezihe Muhiddin was editor-in-chief of the weekly feminist magazine Kadın Yolu .

Nezihe Muhiddin died in 1958 in a psychiatric hospital in Istanbul.

meaning

Nezihe Muhiddin is considered one of the pioneers for women's rights in Turkey. She worked intensively for the abolition of polygamy and for a modern divorce law, for active and passive voting rights and for equal rights for women in society.

Publications

  • Şebab-i Tebah . 1911
  • Benliğim Benimdir . 1929
  • Turk Kadını . 1931
  • Güzellik Kraliçesi . 1933
  • İstanbul'da Bir Landru . 1934
  • Bozkurt . 1934
  • Ateş Böcekleri . 1936
  • Bir Aşk Böyle Bitti . 1939
  • Avere Kadın . 1943
  • Bir Yaz Gecesiydi . 1943
  • Çıngıraklı Yılan . 1943
  • Çıplak Model . 1943
  • İzmir Çocuğu . 1943
  • Kalbim Senindir . 1943
  • Gene Geleceksin . 1944
  • Sabah Oluyor . 1944
  • Sus Kalbim Sus . 1944

literature

  • Yaprak Zihnioğlu: Bir Osmanlı Türk kadın hakları savunucusu: Nezihe Muhiddin. 1999
  • Belma Ötüş-Baskett, Ayşegül Baykan: Nezihe Muhittin ve Türk Kadını 1931. İletişim Yayıncılık, Istanbul 1999
  • Yaprak Zihnioğlu: Kadınsız İnkılap / Nezihe Muhiddin, Kadınlar Halk Fırkası, Kadın Birliği. Metis Yayınları, Istanbul 2003

Web links

Commons : Nezihe Muhiddin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Katharina Knaus: Turkish Woman: A Century of Change . European Stability Initiative, p. 5
  2. ^ Nezihe Muhittin , Ministry of Culture and Tourism
  3. ^ History of the Turkish Women's Union , website of the Türk Kadınlar Birliği
  4. ↑ Zehra F. Arat Kabsakal: Human Rights in Turkey . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2007, p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Muhiddin, Nezihe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhittin, Nezihe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish author, journalist and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1958
Place of death Istanbul