Afet İnan

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Afet İnan with Atatürk

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

Afet was sent 1925 by Atatürk to Lausanne, Switzerland to learn French language. Returned to Turkey in 1927, she attended the French "Notre Dame de Sion High School for Girls" in İstanbul. After finishing the school, she was appointed 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 History Institute.

İnan died on June 8, 1985 in Ankara. She was succeeded by her husband Dr. Rıfat, 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