Selma Rıza

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Selma Rızâ

Selma Rızâ , also Selma Rıza Feraceli , (born February 5, 1872 in Istanbul ; † October 5, 1931 ibid) was the first Turkish journalist and one of the first female novelists in her country. She was also active as a women's rights activist.

Life

Rızâ was born in 1872 as the daughter of the Ottoman diplomat Ali Rızâ. The parents had met in Austria-Hungary , where Rızâ worked as a diplomat. Her mother Naile was an Austrian convert .

After completing her school education with private teachers, she traveled to Paris to see her brother Ahmed Rızâ , who was a member of the Young Turks Movement, who campaigned for liberal reforms and a constitutional form of government in the Ottoman Empire. She studied at the Sorbonne and became a member of the Committee for Unity and Progress , the party of the Young Turks. She was the only female member of the movement. Soon she was writing in Turkish for the French-language newspaper Mechveret Supplément Français and the Şura'i Himmet published by the committee .

In 1908 she returned to Istanbul, where she wrote briefly for the newspapers Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete ("Newspaper for Women") and Kadınlar Dünyası ("World of Women"). During this time she repeatedly campaigned for the rights of women in the Ottoman Empire and became a mediator between the Istanbul women's movement and the women's movements in Europe. In 1913 she published a report on the situation of women in Turkey in the journal Le Suffrage des Femmes en Pratique of the International Alliance of Women .

She was also Secretary General of the Ottoman Organization of the Red Crescent from 1908 to 1913 . During the last years of the Ottoman Empire, she mainly took care of converting the Adile Sultan's Palace into a girls' school. With the help of her brother, she was able to found the Kandilli girls' school in the old palace , which existed until 1986 when it burned to the ground.

In 1892, at the age of 20, she wrote the novel Uhuvvet ("Friendship"). It was only printed and published in 1999 by the Turkish Ministry of Culture.

Awards

literature

  • Taha Toros: İlk Türk Kadın Gazeteci Selma Rıza . Skylife, No. 130, 1994, pp. 60-66.
  • Gürsel Aytaç: 19. Yüzyıl Romancılığımızın Nitelikli İlk Kadın Romanı Keşfedildi: Selma Rıza'nın 1892'de Kaleme Aldığı Uhuvvet . Türk Yurdu Türk Romanı Özel Sayısı, No. 153/154, 2000, pp. 77-79.
  • Nurullah Çetin: Selma Rıza - Uhuvvet (Kardeşlik), Osmanlıcadan Sadeleştiren: Nebil Fazıl Alsan . TC Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara 1999, No. 587, 2000, pp. 522-531.
  • Bedrettin Aytaç: The Question of Women in the Works of Selma Riza and May Ziadeh . Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih -‐ Coğrafya Fakanschesi Dergisi, No. 42, 1/2, 2002, pp. 67–77.
  • Abdullah Uçman: Selma Rıza'nın Mektupları . Tarih ve Toplum, No. 235, 2003, pp. 39-43.
  • Gülsemin Hazer: Selma Rıza'nun Uhuvvet Romanında Kurmaca Yapı . Turkish Studies, 6/3, summer 2011, pp. 875–893.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cumhuriyet döneminde başarılı olmuş kadınlar , Kadin Hareketi Derneği (Turkish)
  2. ↑ a b Elife Biçer-Deveci: The Ottoman Turkish women's movement in the context of international women's organizations . (= Volume 4, Ottoman Studies), V & R / Bonn University Press, Göttingen / Bonn
  3. ↑ Selma Rıza Feraceli , Istanbul Women's Museum
personal data
SURNAME Rıza, Selma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riza, Selma; Rızâ, Selma; Rıza Feraceli, Selma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman-Turkish journalist, writer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1931
Place of death Istanbul