Selma Emiroğlu Aykan (17 May 1928 – 4 October 2011) was the first female cartoonist in
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. She was also an opera singer.
Life
She was born in
Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...
on 17 May 1928. She studied
Üsküdar American Academy
Üsküdar American Academy ( Turkish: ''Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi'', ) often abbreviated as Üsküdar American or UAA, is a private coeducational American high school located in Üsküdar borough of Istanbul, Turkey.
The school was established b ...
, but before graduation, she left the school and entered the Conservatoire of Istanbul Municipality.
In 1963, she married Aydın Aykan and moved to
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
,
West Germany
West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...
. She gave birth to a daughter named Aylin. She died on 4 October 2011 in
Tutzing
Tutzing is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Starnberg (district), Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town wa ...
, Germany.
Cartoonist career
During her childhood, she was fond of drawing. Her mother sent some of her drawings to
Cemal Nadir Güler
Cemal Nadir (13 July 1902 – 27 February 1947) was a Turkish people, Turkish cartoonist. Güler is the surname he assumed after the Surname Law of 1934.
Biography
Cemal Nadir was born in Bursa, Ottoman Empire on 13 July 1902. His father Åževket ...
, a renowned cartoonist of the 1940s. Her first cartoon appeared on the ''Amcabey'' periodical of Güler as early as 1943. When ''
DoÄŸan KardeÅŸ
DoÄŸan KardeÅŸ (literally 'Brother DoÄŸan') was the name of a publishing company and a periodical for children in Turkey.
The periodical and the company were named after DoÄŸa, a 10-year-old boy studying in a school in Flims, Switzerland. He died ...
'', the children's periodical began to be published by
Kâzım Taşkent, the founder of
Yapı Kredi Bank, she began drawing for the publication.
[Medium -Women's stories]
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She created the funnies ''Kara Kedi Çetesi'' ("The Black Cat Gang"). In 1949, when the Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a pr ...
sent an elephant to Turkey as a present for Turkish children, Emiroğlu drew a welcome cartoon on the cover page of ''Doğan Kardeş''.Yalçın Ergir page
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Music
She was one of the sopranos of the Istanbul Opera. She played the leading role in '' La Traviata'' in Istanbul. While in Germany, she concentrated more on music.[
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References
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1928 births
2011 deaths
Artists from Istanbul
Turkish women cartoonists
Turkish female comics artists
20th-century Turkish women opera singers
Turkish expatriates in Germany