Süreyya Ağaoğlu was a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history

History of the Republic of Turkey

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Biography

Süreyya Ağaoğlu was the daughter of Ahmet Ağaoğlu, a prominent Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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i and later Turkish politician of the early 20th century. After the fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

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 in 1920, the Ağaoğlus moved to Turkey

Turkey

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 where Süreyya graduated from the Faculty of Law at Istanbul University

Istanbul University

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and worked as a lawyer from 1927 till her death in 1989. She is the author of books What I Saw in London (Londra'da Gördüklerim) and One Life Has Passed Just Like This (Bir Hayat Böyle Geçti), where she touched upon many important legal issues.

Süreyya Ağaoğlu died of a stroke in 1989.