Speaker at the Twelfth Congress of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) in Istanbul SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Joël László editor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:siba.3029 Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, Istanbul Selahattin Giz 1/0332C Yapı Kredi bank Gender Status Social Stratification International Relations State Political Movements Political Behavior Photographic negative 1935-04 Selahattin Giz Giz, 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 specified Not specified Turkey Turkey Istanbul Sultanahmet Uluslararası 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.
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