Cumhuriyet bids farewell to Şükran Soner
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- Şükran Soner, a longtime Cumhuriyet writer and Cumhuriyet Foundation board member, died in hospital after a period of treatment.
- Her first signed article appeared on Sept. 11, 1966.
- She spent 60 years writing news reports and columns on issues including women, the Balkans, education scandals and economic policy.
Şükran Soner, a prominent writer for Cumhuriyet, has died after spending a period of time in hospital. She also served on the board of the Cumhuriyet Foundation.
Soner published her first signed article on Sept. 11, 1966. Over the next six decades, she wrote many news reports and columns that helped set the public agenda.
Her recorded work included a 1969 series titled “From the Sultan’s Order to the People’s Will,” a 1973 report on stolen university entrance questions, and later series on violence against women and the fragmentation of the Balkans.
She also wrote a 2019 series titled “A Sultanate Growing Through Construction Is Bankrupt.” Cumhuriyet’s photographs show her at a book fair with editor-in-chief Mine Esen and foundation secretary and columnist Işık Kansu, at a 2024 Barış Association hearing, with former Chief of General Staff İlker Başbuğ in 1982, and with foundation founder Berin Nadi in 2024.
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