Speaker and representatives 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.3030Yapı Kredi tarih arşivi, IstanbulSelahattin Giz1/0333BYapı Kredi bankGender StatusSocial StratificationInternational RelationsStatePolitical MovementsPolitical BehaviorPhotographic negative1935-04NamıkGörgüçGörgüç, NamıkSelahattin GizGiz, Selahattin A woman is standing on a podium delivering a speech, reading from a sheet in her hands. Below her, conference representatives in diverse national and regional costume are seated, all of them female except for one man.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.