Afet İnan

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Ayşe Afet İnan (1908 – June 8, 1985) was a Turkish historian and sociologist. She was one of the adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Afet İnan was born in 1908 in Selanik, then in the Ottoman Empire. She graduated from the Bursa Teachers College for Girls in 1925, and started to work as a primary school teacher in İzmir. She met Mustafa Kemal Atatürk the same year in October during his visit to İzmir.

Afet was sent in 1925 by Atatürk to Lausanne, Switzerland, to learn French. After returning to Turkey in 1927, she attended the French "Notre Dame de Sion High School for Girls" in İstanbul. Finishing the school, she was appointed as a secondary school teacher for history. In 1935, Afet İnan went to Switzerland again to study history at the University of Geneva. After graduating, she obtained a PhD degree in sociology in 1939. In 1950, she became a professor at the University of Ankara.

She was the co-founder and a leading member of the Turkish Historical Society.

İnan died on June 8, 1985 in Ankara, leaving behind her husband Dr. Rıfat İnan, her daughter Arı and her son Demir.

The "Afet İnan Historical Studies Award" is given biennially by the Turkish History Foundation in cooperation with İnan's family.

[edit] Selected bibliography

• Medeni bilgiler ve M. Kemal Atatürk'ün el yazıları, Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1969
• Atatürk'ten yazdıklarım, Ankara, 1969
• Recherches Sur les Caractéres Anthropologiques des Population de la Turquie, Genève, 1939
• Türk Amirali Piri Reis'in Hayatı ve Eserleri
• L'émancipation de la Femme Turque

[edit] References

• Biography (Turkish)