Author Event – Özlem Özdemir

16 May 2023

As part of guided reading in Turkish lessons, journalist and author Özlem Özdemir met TED students at our school on Tuesday, 9 May. The well-known author once again told our children the stories of remarkable pioneering women who grew up in the light of the Republic, and after the talk students had the chance to get their books signed.

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Journalist and author Özlem Özdemir devotes her work to the lives of the pioneering women of the Turkish Republic.

Her book “Kadınlar Cumhuriyeti” (The Women's Republic) tells the lives of 12 women scientists, including Remziye Hisar, Fatma Selma Soysal and Türkan Saylan.
She wrote “Afet”, a biography of the historian Afet İnan.
She produced “Vali Hanım” (Madam Governor), a documentary about Dr Lale Aytaman, Türkiye's first woman governor.
For the Republic's centenary she prepared the stories of 100 pioneering women for the exhibition “Pioneering Women of the Republic”.

Source: Medyascope – Özlem Özdemir ile ilham veren Cumhuriyet kahramanları

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