Mualla Eyüboğlu

[2] Her father, Mehmet Rahmi, was the Governor of Trabzon and a member of parliament chosen by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Her family moved to Istanbul, where she enrolled in a regular high school, unlike many of her peers who often attended all girls colleges.

So the country was divided into 21 parts and in each was built an institute that not only taught people how to read and write but also crafts like carpentry and planting.

[3] In 1948, she met her future husband Robert Anhegger, a German scholar in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies.

He proposed to me with a ring that was from the 4th century A.D. After my father's death, I was feeling lonely and I couldn't resist his insistence anymore.

Her most famous restoration projects included the landmark Topkapı Palace's harem section and Rumelihisarı.

[4] Eyüboğlu was celebrated in an exhibition Cumhuriyet Kadınları Sahneye Çıkıyor: Cevval, Akılcı, Dirençli, Sabırlı ve İnançlı, (Republican Women Take to the Stage: Brave, Rational, Resistant, Patient and Faithful) organised at Goethe-Institut Ankara from 5 December 2023 to 4 February 2024 in honour of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey and the 90th anniversary of Turkish women gaining the right to vote.

Alongside Eyüboğlu the exhibition featured archaeologist Halet Çambel, computer scientist Marianne Laqueur, Semiha Berksoy, Turkey's first Muslim opera singer, paediatrician Erna Eckstein Schlossmann and architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.