Halide Edib
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| Halide Edib | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Birth | 1884 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Death | 1964 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality |  Turkish
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Novelist, Educator |
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Halide Edib (also spelled Halide Edip) was a novelist, Turkish nationalist and feminist. Along with her second husband, she served in the Turkish military during the Turkish War of Independence, after World War I.
During World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was an ally of Germany, she ran a boarding school for girls in Istanbul, where she was assisted by Molly, an American. In September 1918, Indiana Jones, in the guise of Nils Anderson, befriended Molly to gain access to Edib, who was active in the push for Turkish nationalism. She was able to use her clout to arrange a meeting between Jones and General Mustafa Kemal, though she disagreed with Kemal's methods.
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[edit] Behind the scenes
Actress Zuhal Olcay portrayed Halide Edib in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
The real world Halide Edip was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire; as a girl, she studied Arabic and mathematics, and graduated from the American College for Girls in 1901; the college was an influential force for reformist social change at the time. Halide Edip Adivar was only 15 years old in 1897 and translated Mother by Jacob Abbott and was awarded by Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II with The Order of Charity (Nishan-i-Shafakat / Şefkat Nişanı).
With her first husband, Salih Zeki, she had two children before they divorced.
Her first novel, Seviye Talip, was published in 1909. She remarried, to Dr. Adnan Adıvar, in 1917, and the next year took a job as a lecturer in literature at Istanbul's Faculty of Letters. It was during this time that she became increasingly active in Turkey's nationalist movement, and after the end of World War I she and her husband travelled to Anatolia to fight in the War for Independence; she served first as a corporal and then as a sergeant in the nationalist military.
