Sevgül Uludağ (); born October 15, 1958) is a

Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land onc ...

journalist, as well as a peace and gender activist. Born in

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in 1958, Uludağ worked in a bank, and later as a proofreader, before she became a journalist in 1980. Working as an investigative reporter, she has been instrumental in uncovering information on thousands of missing Cypriots. In addition, she has also written a number of books. She is a 2008

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laureate, the first Cypriot winner of this award. She co-founded two NGOs, Hands Across the Divide, and the Women's Research Centre in Nicosia. The activist and journalist was nominated for the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish language, Swedish and ) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the Will and testament, will of Sweden, Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobe ...

in 2019 for her work on missing people and refugees on the island of

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Selected works

*''Oysters with the Missing Pearls'' (2005) *''Orphans of Nationalism'' (2008)

References

1958 births Living people Turkish Cypriot non-fiction writers Turkish Cypriot journalists Cypriot women writers Cypriot women journalists Cypriot women columnists People from North Nicosia 21st-century women writers Turkish Cypriot columnists Türk Maarif Koleji alumni Turkish women columnists Turkish Cypriot women 20th-century Turkish journalists 21st-century Turkish journalists 20th-century Turkish women journalists 21st-century Turkish women journalists {{Cyprus-journalist-stub