Sabiha Sertel

Sabiha Derviş Sertel (1895, Salonica – September 2, 1968 Baku) was the first professional female journalist and one of the first feminist writers in Turkey with Dönmeh ancestry.[1] Educated in a progressive high school, Sertel began writing essays at the age of sixteen on women's rights and social issues.[2] In 1915 she married Zekeriya Sertel, also a famous journalist in Salonica and Istanbul. She worked for the newspaper Tan and the magazine Görüşler.

References

  1. ↑ The Dönme: Jewish converts, Muslim revolutionaries, and secular Turks, Marc David Baer
  2. ↑ de Haan, Francisca; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (2006). Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 494–6. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.