Hürriyet Sırmaçek (1912 - 2 January 1983) was Turkey's first female bridge engineer.
Hürriyet Sırmaçek was born in Damascus in 1912 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
[1][2] She worked as a senior engineer at various levels in the Turkish State Railways (TCDD).
Other work included engineering the "T" deck beam supporting the Haydarpaşa overpass at the 71km mark on the Izmir-Manisa road.
She calculated the requirements for the 2x45'lik steel truss bridge, the first such edifice in Turkey.