Lale Aytaman

[1] Lale Aytaman finished St. George's Austrian High School (Turkish: Avusturya Kız Lisesi) in Istanbul.

She studied German literature at Istanbul University, then went to Hamburg in Germany, where she continued her studies and earned her Ph.D. She was a professor at Boğaziçi University and she became the first female governor of Turkey on 6 July 1991, was appointed to this position by President Turgut Özal.

The Muğla Handicrafts project was created to preserve the traditional way of cotton and silk weaving.

She was head of the Turkish delegation to the Congress for Local and Regional Authorities of Council of Europe in 1995 when she was elected as an MP from the province of Muğla.

She prepared together with Sir John Hunt, the "Black Sea Report" at the WEU.