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aslında Lisa del Giocondo.
Floransalı tüccar Francesco
del Giocondo’nun, daha
sonradan dünyanın en ünlü
tablosu olacak olan portresini
yaptırdığı eşi.
O Halide Edip Adıvar’dır.
İstanbul’un savaş yıllarında
halkı işgale karşı harekete
geçirmek için yaptığı
konuşmalarla akıllarda kalmış
usta bir hatip; Kurtuluş Savaşı
cephelerinde Mustafa Kemal’in
yanında görev almış, sivil
olmasına rağmen rütbe alan
bir savaş kahramanı; savaş
yıllarında Anadolu Ajansı’nın
kurulmasında rol alan bir
gazeteci; yazdığı yirmi bir
roman, dört hikaye kitabı ki
biri “İzmir’den Bursa”yadır,
iki tiyatro eseri ve çeşitli
incelemeleri ile bir yazar;
edebiyat profesörlüğü yapmış
bir akademisyen ve TBMM’de
milletvekilliği yapmış bir
siyasetçi.
O, bu yazıya sığmayan
milyonlarca kadındır. Ama
belki de her şeyden önce
O, tüm bu isimleri, isimlerini
burada sayamadıklarımızı
ve bizi karnında dokuz ay
taşıyıp büyüttükten sonra
dünyaya getiren, rahim sıfatının
insandaki tecellisi, cennetin
ayakları altında olduğu,
sonsuz şefkat ve özveri sahibi,
karşılıksız aşkın diğer adı
annedir.
is Madam Curie. The “woman
who died for science” due to
overexposure to radiation during
her work that led to the discovery
of radioactivity. She is Eva Peron.
A folk hero who worked for the
public, the laborers and children;
providing money, food and drugs
for them. She is Joan of Arc. The
Catholic saint who supported her
country France against England
during the Hundred Years’ War
when she was sixteen and who
was executed by being burned
at the stake by the church
thereby dying at about the age
of nineteen. She is Cleopatra.
The last Hellenistic empress of
Ancient Egypt who knew nine
languages and who stole the
hearts of two Roman emperors
while striving for her ideal to
dominate the entire world much
like Alexander the Great. She
is Mona Lisa; the real name of
whom is Lisa del Giocondo. The
wife of Francesco del Giocondo,
a merchant from Florence, whose
portrait went on to be the most
famous one in the world.
She is Halide Edip Adıvar. A
master orator remembered with
the speeches she gave during
the years of war in Istanbul
to activate the public against
invasion; a hero who worked by
Mustafa Kemal at the fronts of
the War of Independence and
was given a military ranking
despite the fact that she was a
civilian; a newspaper reporter
who played an active role
in the establishment of the
Anatolian Agency; an author
with twenty two novels, four
collections of short stories one
of which is entitled “From Izmir
to Bursa”, two plays as well as
various reviews; an academic
who worked as a professor
of literature and a politician
who was the member of the
Parliament at the Grand National
Assembly of Turkey.
She is one of the millions of
women who cannot be included
in this short article. But first and
foremost, she is the mother: the
name of all those we cannot
name here, those who gave
birth to us after nine months, the
manifestation of the adjective
‘merciful’ and those for whom
heaven lies at their feet due to
their infinite compassion and
unrequited love.
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