20 minutes with Melik Tutuncu

Melik Tutuncu, Chicago-based architect of Turkish origin, talks about his grand-mother, Safiye Behar, a Jewish marxist feminist who had a 30 year-long affair with Mustapha Kemal Atatürk and influenced many of the reforms he was implementing in the 1920's, which founded modern Turkey.

• Release date
• January 1, 2004
• Runtime
• 20 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Michael Blum