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10 Facts About Behice Boran

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Behice Boran was a Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist.

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Behice Boran was born in Bursa to Kazan Tatar parents whose families had settled in the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s.

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3.

Behice Boran graduated from American College for Girls in Istanbul and studied sociology at the University of Michigan in the United States.

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4.

Behice Boran received a PhD on sociology in 1939 from the University of Michigan, and was involved in Marxism.

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5.

Behice Boran was nominated to Ankara University, Faculty of Language and History-Geography as an associate professor.

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6.

Behice Boran joined the clandestine Communist Party of Turkey and began publishing left-wing periodicals, Yurt ve Dunya and Adimlar, which led to her sacking from the university.

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7.

In 1965, Behice Boran was elected deputy from the Workers' Party of Turkey in the Turkish parliament.

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8.

Behice Boran was arrested after the military coup of 1971 and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.

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9.

Behice Boran died soon after this press conference from heart disease in Brussels, Belgium.

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10.

Behice Boran's body was brought to Istanbul and her funeral turned into a mass demonstration, the first public show of force of Turkey's left-wing movement after the coup.

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