Madam Atatürk

Ipek Çalislar: Ipek Çalislar is a journalist and writer. She has worked for the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet for twelve years, as news editor and later as the Sunday supplement editor. An international bestseller, Madam Atatürk is her first literary work.Feyza Howell: Feyza Howell was born in 1957 in Izmir, Turkey. Her translations include Fiasco by Coskun Büktel, The Book of Madness by Levent Senyürek and The Concubine by Gül Irepoglu.

The first biography of Ataturk's wife and a rediscovery of an important proto-feminist figure. Translated from the Turkish by Feyza Howell. 'Sumptuous, surprising and profound' Orhan Pamuk

Contents:ForewordIntroductionAcknowledgmentsTranslator's NotesList of Illustrations1 Meeting2 Latife's Family3 The Occupation of Izmir, Latife's Hometown 4 Love Springs from the Ashes of the Great Fire 5 Mustafa Kemal Pasa Proposes6 Waiting for the Wedding7 Zübeyde Hanim, the Mother-in-Law8 A Purebred Arabian as an Engagement Present9 "Get ready, we're getting married!"10 Honeymoon 11 Arrival in Ankara, the Nationalist Base 12 The Bride who Came to the Garrison 13 Latife Entertains the Foreign Press at Çankaya 14 Touring the Country Together15 The 'Impertinent' Bride who Wears Spurs16 Bullet Holes in Latife's Clothes 17 Latife Wants to Stand for Parliament18 Life at the Residence19 The Proclamation of the Republic20 The Groom Has a Heart Attack21 Latife Shields her Husband with her Own Body22 She Prepares the State Protocol 23 Women of the Time 24 The Women's Movement and Latife 25 Fikriye: The Former Consort Comes Back26 Kick-starting the Economy 27 Autumn Tour 28 Days of Opposition 29 Was it a Love Match? 30 Divorce31 Reverberations 32 Separation33 Tears in Mustafa Kemal's Blue Eyes 34 Latife Supports the Opposition Party 35 A Unique Surname from Atatürk 36 The Campaign of Vilification37 Latife Hides her Illness38 Guarding the History of the Republic in her Safe Appendices: I Obituaries in the Foreign PressII Obituary by Burhan FelekBiographical NotesBibliographyIndex