Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884)
Halide Edib Adıvar (Ottoman Turkish: خالده اديب [haːliˈde eˈdib]; sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English) (11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, Kemalist, teacher and political leader for women's rights. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw from her observation as the lack of interest of most women in changing their situation.
During World War I, Halide Edib ran an orphanage at the former Saint Joseph College in Antoura, Lebanon, that attempted to Turkify orphans of Armenian Genocide victims. She was a Pan-Turkist and several of her novels advocated for the Turanism movement.
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