Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, one of the most important researchers of the Sumerian and Hittite cultures over 108 years, was the guest of the October 2022 issue of Hello magazine and made candid statements.
Answering the questions of Narin Kazak, one of the writers of the magazine, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ said, “As we approach 2023, there is a bitterness in me. Our country is in darkness. What is this misogyny, hostility to doctors, abuses against children, injustice, decline in education, corruption, bribery scandals, poverty, drug dealing, the perversion of our religion, our economy going upside down, our youth leaving the country? How has our once inspired homeland been reduced to the level of 3rd World countries? I see that the seeds of our country's regression were planted in the 108s, as I replay what I have lived through for 50 years. Those who ruled the country in those years, unfortunately, could not understand how this country was won, where it came from, how it came, and did not think about how it made the bones of our martyrs ache. Even though we were in the pessimism of bad days, we trusted the common sense and patriotism of my nation, especially our women, and defeated this darkness. I believe that we will return to the path drawn by our ancestors. The Republic is everything.”
Hello magazine, which includes the entire interview, is published by the Sev Medya Publishing Group and is available at select bookstores, popular sales sites and digital platforms.
Who is Muazzez İlmiye Avalanche?
Muazzez İlmiye Avalanche (Birth Date 20 June 1914; Bursa, Ottoman Empire), Turkish sumerologist.
His family is originally from Crimean immigrants, his father immigrated from Crimea to Amasya, Merzifon, and his mother immigrated from Crimea to Bursa. While his family was living in İzmir, he settled in Çorum, a safer place, after the occupation of İzmir on May 15, 1919.
He started primary school in Çorum. Later, they moved to Bursa as a family. He took French and violin lessons at Bizim Mektep, a private school in Bursa. In 1926, she entered the Bursa Girls Teacher's School (Bursa Girls Teacher's School) with an exam. She graduated in 1931 and was assigned to Eskişehir, where her father was also a teacher. He worked as a teacher in Eskişehir for 4.5 years.[2]. Meanwhile, his brother Turan İtil (1924-2014) went to America to become a neurosurgeon.
He enrolled in the Hittitology Department of the Faculty of Language, History and Geography at Ankara University on February 15, 1936. Having taken refuge in Turkey from Nazi Germany and giving lectures at Ankara University, Prof. Dr. Hittite Language and Culture lessons from Hans Gustav Guterbock, Prof. Dr. He took Sumerian and Akkadian Languages and Mesopotamian Culture lessons from Benno Landsberger. After graduating from Ankara University in 1940, he was appointed as an expert to the Cuneiform Documents Archive of the Istanbul Ancient Orient Artifacts Museum. In the same year, she married Kemal Çığ. During the 31 years she worked at the museum, her colleague Hatice Kızılyay and Dr. Together with FR Kraus, he cleaned, classified and numbered tens of thousands of tablets written in Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages in the warehouse of the museum. archive of cuneiform documentsHe made copies of 3 tablets and published them in a catalogue.
In 1957 he attended the Congress of Orientalists in Munich. She did a 1960-month study at Heidelberg University in 6. She took the Hittite exhibition, which was exhibited in Rome in 1965, from this city and took it to London. She retired in 1972.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, who lived abroad for a while after retirement, attended the Assyriology Congress in Philadelphia in 1988. prof. Kramer's History Begins at Sumer He translated his book titled “Tarih Sümerle Başlar” into Turkish and the book was published by the Turkish Historical Society in 1990 under the name “Tarih Sümerle Başlar”. After the book received a lot of attention, it was published in 1993 for children. Journey to Sumer through Time Tunnel He wrote 13 books on the Sumerian and Hittite cultures.
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ's private archive is in the Women's Works Library and Information Center Foundation.
Awards
- Adana Tepebag Rotary Club, Professional Service Award
- By Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Honorary Doctorate title, May 4, 2000
- in Çardak village of Osmaniye. Anatolian Folklore and Culture Association “Free People Award” by 2005
- My Citizenship Reactions His book, titled, was translated into English by the Galatasaray Rotary Club and distributed to university libraries in Europe and America.
- International Lions Clubs Association by “Melvin Jones Friendship Award”, 2014
Case
The Abundance Cult and Temple Prostitution ve My Citizenship Reactions He wrote in his books called the headscarf in women that the roots of the headscarf go back to the Akkadians. These books aroused public repercussions in 2007. He was tried in 2007 with the crime of "inciting the public to hatred and enmity" in his book titled "Citizenship Reactions".
Books
- “The Origin of the Qur'an, Bible and Torah in Sumer”, 1995
- “The Sumerian Ludingirra – “Travel in the Time Tunnel”, 1996
- "Prophet Abraham - According to Sumerian Writings and Archaeological Finds", 1997
- “The Love of Inanna – Faith and Sacred Marriage in Sumer”, 1998
- “Journey to Sumer with a Time Tunnel”, 1998
- “The Hittites and Hattusha – From the Pen of Ishtar”, 2000
- “Gilgamesh – The First King Hero in History”, 2000
- “Middle East Civilization Heritage”, 2002
- “Middle East Civilization Heritage 2”, 2003
- “Sumerian Animal Tales”, 2003
- “The Cult of Abundance and Temple Prostitution”, 2004
- “My Citizenship Reactions”, 2004
- “Atatürk Thinks”, 2005
- “The Cult of Abundance and Temple Prostitution”, 2005
- “The Nail Removes the Nail – Muazzez İlmiye Avalanche Book”, Serhat Öztürk, 2002
- “The Flood in the Sumerians – Turks in the Flood”, 2008
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