Fatma Nezihe Araz was a Turkish writer and journalist.
11 Facts About Nezihe Araz
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Nezihe Araz hailed from the eminent Bulgurzade family, renamed Araz after the Surname Law.
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Nezihe Araz graduated from Ankara Girls' High School in 1941 and from the Department of Psychology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Language, History of Geography in Ankara University.
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However, when Boran was expelled from the university in 1948, Araz quit her job and was taken to Istanbul by her family, who wanted to take her away from leftist circles.
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Nezihe Araz later continued working with the same team in the magazine Hayat.
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Nezihe Araz was sent to Mecca to write a series of reports to gain circulation.
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One of the photos published was of an Arab urinating next to a wall, this was reportedly met with outrage from the visiting King of Iraq, Faisal II, and Nezihe Araz was fired from the newspaper.
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Nezihe Araz published more religious books in the 1950s and 60s, and worked as a columnist in Yeni Istanbul, Milliyet and Gunes.
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Nezihe Araz won the Afife Jale Theatre Award and Avni Dilligil Theatre Award for her work.
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Nezihe Araz lived in an old people's home in her last years.
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Nezihe Araz suffered from Alzheimer's disease, refused to see anybody and had reportedly lost a lot of weight.