Bedriye Tahir Gökmen

She was the first Turkish woman to earn a pilot license.

[1] Tahir trained at the Vecihi Hürkuş Private Flying School and earned her license in 1933.

[1] However, her employer did not approve of her flying, and reduced her salary as a punishment.

Nevertheless, she graduated from the flight school in 1934, and applied to the Undersecretary of the Air Force to get her license confirmed.

[3] A Turkish parachutist, Abdurrahman Türkkuşu, gave her the nickname Gökmen Bacı ("Sister of the Blue Skies").