Emel Öget Gazimihal (1912–1998) was the first female radio presenter in
Turkey
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Biography
Emel Öget was born in 1912. Her father's name was Fevzi Öget. She married Tahsin Gazimihal.
In 1937, she was serving for the
Turkish PTT in
İstanbul
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. In the 1930s,
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
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(TRT) was not yet established, and the radio broadcasting was under the responsibility of the Turkish PTT. After an audition, she was recruited as the news speaker of
Ankara Radio. She went to
Ankara
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and immediately began working without any preliminary training. She recalls that in the early days of the radio, there was no standard acoustic treatment in the studio and the walls were covered by carpets.
[TRT page Interview with Emel Gazimihal ]
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On 1 October 1937, she was sent by the government to London
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, England to take training at the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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(British Broadcasting Corporation) for six months. She returned to Turkey to continue as the only permanent female speaker. She served in Ankara Radio as a news speaker and during
learned the course of the war by her voice. In 1951, she returned to İstanbul, and served about ten years in
. She retired in 1962.