Meryem Muazzez Tahsin (c. 1899 – 4 October 1984) was a Turkish female writer.
She was born to Hasan Tahsin and his wife Ayşe in Thessaloniki, Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire.
[1] The family left Thessaloniki after the Balkan Wars, and emigrated to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire in 1912.
[citation needed] In 1917, she went to Beirut, Lebanon, then under the Ottoman rule, to serve as a teacher of Turkish language in the Beirut High School for Girls, which was founded by Halide Edip.
After the Turkish War of Independence in 1922, she returned to Istanbul to serve a few years in the Şişli Terakki High School as a teacher of French and Ethics.