Word: sabiha
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...heroine of the Kurd hunt was 22-year-old Sabiha Gogçen Hanoum, Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's adopted daughter who last year became the first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded...