Background
Emine Semiye was born in Istanbul on 28 March 1866. She was the second daughter of Ahmet Cevdet Pasha and sister of Fatma Aliye. Her mother was Adviye Rabia Hanım.
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Emine Semiye studied psychology and sociology in France and Switzerland for seven years.
Career
Beginning in 1882, Emine Semiye worked as a Turkish and literature teacher in Istanbul and in other provinces. She served as an inspector at girls’ schools and an assistant nurse at Şişli Etfal Hospital. Her writings on politics and education were published in the newspapers such as Mütalaa (in Thessalonica) and Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete ("Newspaper for Women" in English) after the declaration of constitutional monarchy in 1908 (see Second Constitutional Era).
She also wrote a math textbook entitled Hulasa-i Ilm-i Hesap in 1893.
Her most-known novels are Sefalet (1908) ("Poverty") and Gayya Kuyusu ("The Pit of Hell"). She established several charity organizations to help women.
She always struggled for women"s rights. Emine Semiye lived for a long time in Paris.
Her first husband was Mustafa Bey.
The second was Reşit Pasha. They divorced later. She had a son, Cevdet Lagaş. She died in Istanbul in 1944.
Membership
She became a member of the progressive Committee of Union and Progress and later, the Ottoman Democratic Party. In 1920, she was named a member of the governing board of the Turkish Press Association, which had been called the Ottoman Press Association until that year.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Democratic party