Hatice Özgener
Hatice Özgener (1865 – February 21, 1940) was a Turkish school teacher, politician and one of the first 18 female members of the Turkish parliament. Early life Hatice was born to Sheikh Mustafa and his spouse Fatma in Sanjak of Salonica, Ottoman Greece in 1865. She was schooled in the "Red School", and then attended the newly-opened Girls' Secondary School in Thessaloniki. School teacher career Hatice was appointed assistant teacher at the Girls' Secondary School in Thessaloniki, serving at this position from October 1878 to September 1885. End September 1894, she resigned from her assistant teacher post at the Secondary School. In August 1900, she returned to the same school as a teacher and served until end November 1911, in the last months teaching also drawing. Between December 1912 and March 1913, she received special payment from the government due to the occupation of Thessaloniki by Greeks during the First Balkan War in 1912. She served as a teacher of history at several schools in Istanbul, such as at Istanbul Teacher's College (from March 1913), Süleymaniye Girl's Secondary School (from March 1914), Istanbul Industrial Vocational School for Girls (from December 1914) and Kadıköy Orphanage School for Girls (from March 1915).