Latife Bekir Çeyrekbaşı

Life & Legacy

Latife Bekir Çeyrekbaşı (1901-1952) (or with the surname given to her by Atatürk, Latife Işıkdoğdu) was a Turkish educator, politician, suffragist and women's rights activist.
Latife Bekir, one of the leading figures of the feminist movement in Turkey in the first half of the 20th century, was a member of the founding and management team of Women's People Party, founded in 1923, and its successor Türk Kadınlar Birliği. She entered the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as an İzmir deputy from the Republican People's Party in the 1946 general elections. Her grandfather was one of the Ottoman Ministers of Public Education Abdullatif Suphi Pasha, and her uncle Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver was one of the Ministers of National Education during the republic period. Her granddaughter Sema Çeyrekbaşıoğlu is an actress.