Speaker at the Twelfth Congress of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) in IstanbulSIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Joël LászlóeditorMiddle Eastern Studies, University of BaselCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:siba.3029Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, IstanbulSelahattin Giz1/0332CYapı Kredi bankGender StatusSocial StratificationInternational RelationsStatePolitical MovementsPolitical BehaviorPhotographic negative1935-04Selahattin GizGiz, Selahattin A lady is delivering a speech in front of a microphone. She is leaning forward, displaying passionate body language. Her hands are folded and she is holding the end of a ribbon. Three other ladies are sitting to her right, listening attentively. Behind her, in the back row of the representative hall in which this scene is taking place, a woman with glasses is taking notes. She is watched by a smiling young girl standing behind her. Several more women are sitting along the wall to the speaker’s right.The photograph was taken in the context of the Twelfth Congress of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (IAW), which took place in Yıldız Palace in Istanbul from 18 to 25 April 1935. More than two hundred delegates from over thirty countries attended the congress.Not specifiedNot specifiedTurkeyTurkeyIstanbulSultanahmetUluslararası 12nci Kadın Kongresinden intıbalar. Cumhuriyet, 19 April 1935. – Cf. Kathryn Libal, Staging Turkish Women's Emancipation, Istanbul, 1935, in: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 31-52.