TÜRKİYE’NİN İLK KADIN AVUKATI SÜREYYA AĞAOĞLU VE ERKEN CUMHURİYET DÖNEMİ MODERNLEŞME PROJESİ İLE ETKİLEŞİMİ
TURKEY’S FIRST FEMALE LAWYER SÜREYYA AĞAOĞLU AND HER INTERACTION WITH THE MODERNIZATION PROJECT OF THE EARLY REPUBLICAN ERA

Summary/Abstract: Süreyya Ağaoğlu is one of the first female jurists and the first female lawyer of the Republic of Turkey. She was the first female student to study and fight to enroll in the Law Department of Istanbul Darülfünun (University). Ağaoğlu registered with the Ankara Bar Association in December 1927 and began working as the country’s first female lawyer. It is possible to say that Süreyya Ağaoğlu’s life story is one of the best examples reflecting the educated and intellectual Turkish woman raised in the Early Republican Period, representing the new and modern female identity that was desired to be created. She is the daughter of Ahmet Ağaoğlu, a well-known politician, writer, journalist, and thinker. In line with her father’s contemporary approach, she received a good education, was at the center of many intellectual changes, the search for women’s rights, and the modernization project of the Early Republican Period that she witnessed and reflected this change in her life story. Süreyya Ağaoğlu was in Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s close circle with her family, and they frequently came together during the period when Atatürk was married to Latife Hanım. Throughout her life, Ağaoğlu defended the Republic, the revolutions of the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk era, and women’s and children’s rights. This study examines Süreyya Ağaoğlu’s life as a “woman of the republic” and in the context of the modernization project she was influenced by, addressing both the impact of these political and cultural changes on her as a woman and how the life of a woman who voluntarily participated in this project was shaped accordingly.

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