Basında ÖzÜ - Pioneering Woman and Intellectual to be Commemorated (English)

Daily Sabah

INTELLECTUAL Nezihe Muhiddin, founder of the Women's People Party the first political party in the history of the Turkish Republic - a women's right advocate, journalist and author, will be commemorated with a documentary screening and a special talk today on March 8 International Women's Day at Ozyegin University and Hazar Education, Culture and Solidarity Foundation respectively. The first event will be held between 12.40 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. while the one at the Hazar Foundation will be held at 4.30 p.m. and will be enriched with interactive talks. Directed by Umran Safter and written by Ahsen Diner, the documentary film "The Sin of Being a Woman" will greet its audience at Ozyegin University as a tribute to Nezihe Muhiddin. The film screening will be hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences under the auspices of the Women's Studies Club and the Cinema Club. Following the screening, Umran Safter, the film's director, Yaprak Zihnioglu, the film's history consultant and researcher, and academic lecturer Senem Timuroglu, will come together with the audience to give a talk. The talk will be moderated by Ms. Gulsu Bartan, the president of the Women's Studies Club of the university. The event at the Hazar Foundation will also feature Umran Safter and Yaprak Zihnioglu, who will talk about Nezihe Muhiddin and the documentary "The Sin of Being a Woman."