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Oya Baydar | |
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| Born | January 1, 1940 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupation | Novelist, story writer |
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Oya Baydar (born 1940) is a Turkish sociologist and writer. [1] For a long time she was involved in socialist politics.
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Oya Baydar | |
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| Born | January 1, 1940 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Occupation | Novelist, story writer |
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Oya Baydar (born 1940) is a Turkish sociologist and writer. [1] For a long time she was involved in socialist politics.
Oya Baydar studied at the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul. She published her first novel, God Has Forgot Children, which was inspired by French writer Françoise Sagan, while still a student in high school. [2] It was published both in the Hürriyet newspaper and as a book but its publication almost led to her expulsion. She then took a break from writing, interesting herself in politics for a long time, before returning to literature in later life.
Baydar graduated from Istanbul University's Department of Sociology in 1964 then entered the same department as an assistant. The Professors' Council of the University twice rejected her doctoral thesis on the rise of the labour force in Turkey but students occupied the University to protest against this in the first occupation of a university in Turkey. Baydar then became an assistant in Hacettepe University.
During the military coup in 1971 Baydar was arrested because of her socialist activity as a member of the Workers Party of Turkey and the Teachers' Union of Turkey, and she left the University. Between 1972 and 1974, she worked as a columnist for the Yeni Ortam ([New Platform]) and Politika (Politics) newspapers .She produced her first journal with her husband Aydın Engin and Yusuf Ziya Bahadınlı. She was known as a socialist writer, researcher and activist.
During the 1980 military coup, Baydar went abroad. She remained in exile in Germany for twelve years, during which the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist as Germany was reunified. She wrote about this period in 1991 in her novel Farewell Alyosha.
Baydar supported the Yetmez Ama Evet ("Not Enough But Yes") campaign in the 2010 Turkish constitutional referendum in favor of AKP's proposals. She reported in February 2021 that her support to the campaign was a mistake. [3]
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