Novelist (b. ?, İstanbul - d.
1958). She used the pen name Nezihe Muhlis. She started her education at a
local school in Kandilli and continued her education with private courses at
home. For a while, she attended the Training School for Nuns and Teacher
Training School for six months. After the declaration of the Second
Constitutional Monarchy, she worked as a teacher at the Union and Progress
Industry School. She worked as director and teacher at various schools. She
became the Secretary General of the Ottoman Association for the Protection of
Turkish Women; she was one of the founders of the Women Branch of the Naval
Association. She worked in the Ottoman Defense of the Nation Women’s
Association.
She published articles on the
role of women in society in the magazines and newspapers of the period. She
tried to make women more involved in social life. She led the Women’s Public
Party of which the formation was banned in 1923 and she led the foundation of
the Women’s Union of Turkey in 1924 where she was director until 1927.
Meanwhile, she published the magazine Kadın
Yolu (from the 4th issue named Türk Kadın Yolu - 1925-27), which was published on behalf of the
Women’s Union. She wrote on the history of women’s movements in Turkey in her
research Türk Kadını (Turkish Women)
in which her memories and experiences featured.
WORKS:
NOVEL: Şebab-ı Tebah (Lost Youth, 1911), Benliğim Benimdir (My Personality is Mine, 1929), Güzellik Kraliçesi (Beauty Queen, 1933),
Bozkurt-Küçük Mehmed’in Romanı (Grey
Wolf-the Novel of Little Mehmet, 1934), Haydudun
Sonu (The End of the Bandit, 1934), İstanbul’da
Bir Landro (A Landro in İstanbul, 1934), Kevser Nine (Grandmother Kevser, 1934), Ateş Böcekleri (Fire Fly, 1936), Bir Aşk Böyle Söndü (A Love was Extinguished Like That, 1939, with
the name Bir Aşk Böyle Bitti - A Love
Ended Like That, in 1943), İzmir Çocuğu:
Geçen Cihan Harbi Mütareke Seneleri Romanı (İzmir Child: Novel of the
Armistice Years of the Last World War, 1943), Bir Yaz Gecesiydi (It was a Summer Night, 1943), Avare Kadın (A Vagrant Woman, 1943), Kalbim Senindir (My Heart is Yours,
1943), Çıngıraklı Yılan (Rattlesnake,
1943), Gene Geleceksin (You Will Come
Again, 1944), Sus Kalbim Sus! (Quiet
My Heart, Quiet!, 1944), Sabah Oluyor
(Again it is Morning, 1944).
RESEARCH: Türk Kadını (Turkish Women, 1931).