Nermin Abadan Unat

Nermin Abadan Unat (born 18 September 1921) is a Turkish academician, lawyer, sociologist, writer, and a retired professor at Boğaziçi University.[1] She studies Turkish immigration as well as women's rights in Turkey.[2] She is one of the leading faces in the development of communications management in Turkey. She introduced the word ''Kamuoyu'' to the Turkish language as a translation for the term public opinion. Similarly, she is the first Turkish academic to use the term ''Halkla Münasebetler'' in literary works as a translation for the term public relations.

Nermin Abadan Unat
Senator of Republican People's Party
In office
1978–1980
Personal details
Born (1921-09-18) 18 September 1921
Vienna, Austria
NationalityTurkish
EducationIstanbul University
University of Minnesota
Alma materFaculty of Law
Occupation
  • Academician
  • Lawyer
  • Sociologist
  • Writer
  • Professor

Education and career

Unat attended İzmir Girls' High School. Then she graduated from the Istanbul University's Faculty of Law. She continued to work for a newspaper named Ulus from 1944 to 1950 following her graduation. She managed to receive a scholarship to attend the University of Minnesota and she graduated in 1953.

After completing her education, she went on to work as an assistant at Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University. She became an associate professor five years later, and a full professor in 1966. Unat, who founded the "Political Behavior Institute" in the same faculty, worked in many places abroad. She mainly dealt with issues of immigrant Turkish workers and women's issues abroad. Her book, Woman in Turkish Society, was also published in German and English.

She served as the Vice President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the President of the Turkish Social Sciences Association, and since 1978, the Vice President of the Council of Europe's Gender Equality Commission. Between 1978 and 1980, she entered the Turkish parliament as a quota senator for the political party CHP.[3]

Unat taught at Boğaziçi University and Istanbul University's Women Research Center. Her books and articles on Turkish workers abroad have been translated in German, English and French.

She was awarded the Vehbi Koç Award in 2012 for the value she added to the field of education. She received a medal of merit from the President of Germany.

Publications
  • Migration and Development (Nuffic/SBF,Ankara, 1975)
  • Abadan-Unat, Nermin (1976). Turkish workers in Europe 1960–1975: a socio-economic reappraisal. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-04478-4.
  • Nermin Abadan Unat, ed. (1981). Women in Turkish society. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-06346-4.
  • Women in the Developing World: Evidence from Turkey,(Denver U., 1986)
  • Migration without end.... From Guestworker to Transnational Citizen (Bilgi Univ:Istanbul, 2002)

See also

References
  1. Howe, Marvine (2004). Turkey: a nation divided over Islam's revival. Basic Books. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-8133-4242-9.
  2. Boğaziçi University. "Prof.Dr. Nermin Abadan-Unat". Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  3. Cooley, John K. (30 March 1979). "Turks tell NATO: Treat us as equals". The Christian Science Monitor.
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