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Adile Ayda
Turkish diplomat (1913-1992) · Turkey · On the map · Politicians · Died at 79
Adile Ayda was the first woman career diplomat of Turkey, but is today better remembered as an Etruscologist.
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She became interested in Etruscan studies while stationed in Rome as the Minister-Counsellor of the Turkish Embassy, did research on the subject during her stay in Italy and wrote down her findings in a number of books, in Turkish and in French. She proposed that the Etruscans were a Turkic-speaking people, a proposal which never enjoyed wide support and has since been discredited.
