Turk Ingiliz edebiyati profesoru, yazar, filolog ve cevirmen Mina Urgan’in olum yildonumu (15 Haziran 2000)
“Kemalist, hem de sapina kadar Kemalist oldugumu acik secik soylemek isterim. Mustafa Kemal benimle dans etti, on bir yasinda bir cocuga insan muamelesi yaptigi icin degil; eger Mustafa Kemal olmasaydi, ben “ben” olamayacagim icin Kemalistim. Egitim gormus, seksenini gecmis bir kadinin bu memlekette Kemalizme inanmamasi tamamiyle anormal olurdu. O sirada kucuktum ama, tramvaylarda erkeklerin oturduklari bolumu kadinlarin oturduklari bolumden ayiran perdeyi cok iyi animsiyorum. Mustafa Kemal, o perdeyi de, kadinlari toplum yasamindan dislayan, karanlik koselere kapatan butun perdeleri de yirtti o guzel elleriyle. Kadinlarin her acidan erkeklerle esit olduklarini savundu. Iste bu yuzdendir ki, Cumhuriyet ilan edildiginde yedi sekiz yasinda olan, onun yaptigi devrimleri kendi gozleriyle goren bir kadinin Mustafa Kemal’den yana olmamasinin yolu yoktur.”
“I want to say loud and clear that I am a Kemalist, a Kemalist down to the root. I am a Kemalist, not because Mustafa Kemal danced with me, treating an eleven-year-old child like a grown-up; but had there been no Mustafa Kemal, I could not be myself. For an educated woman in her eighties not to believe in Kemalism in this country would be completely abnormal. In those days I was little, but I well remember the curtain on the tram that separated the men’s section from the women’s section. That curtain, and all of the curtains that kept woman outside social life, shut away in a dark corner—Mustafa Kemal tore down those curtains with his beautiful hands. He insisted that women were equal to men in every way. This is why, for a woman who was seven or eight when the Republic was declared, who saw with her own eyes the revolutions that he made, there is no way she can not be on the side of Mustafa Kemal.”


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