Sevgi Soysal

[2] She was born in Istanbul on September 30, 1936 as the third child of six to Mithat Yenen, an architect-civil servant, and his German wife Anneliese Rupp , who took later the Turkish name Aliye.

[4] After the military coup on March 12, 1971, she was accused of belonging to a left-wing organization and put in prison.

During her detention in Ankara's Mamak Prison, she met Mümtaz Soysal, a professor of Constitutional law who was also detained for making communist propaganda.

She underwent another breast cancer surgery in September 1976, and went with her husband to London for medical treatment.

[3] Her 1970 novel Yürümek ("Walking") received the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation Achievement Award but was banned for obscenity.