Keriman Halis Ece

Keriman Halis Ece (February 16, 1913 – January 28, 2012) was a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder, pianist, and fashion model who won the Miss Turkey 1932 title.

Keriman Halis was sent then to the International Pageant of Pulchritude contest held in Spa, Belgium to represent Turkey.

On July 31, 1932, she finished first among competitors from 27 countries, achieving Turkey's first title at an international beauty contest after three years only of its existence and less than a decade after the founding of the Republic.

Following the introduction of the surname act on June 21, 1934, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave her the family name "Ece", which means "queen" in Turkish.

As a Turkish beauty queen, she was a symbol of the new liberty of women in the Middle East,[10] following the end of World War I and was celebrated in the Arab press in Egypt and the Syrian Mandate.