Gülçin Çaylıgil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1925
Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
Date of Death: 10-Apr-2013
Profession: lawyer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Gülçin Çaylıgil
- Gülçin Çayligil (7 January 1925, in Istanbul – 10 April 2013, in Bodrum) was a Turkish lawyer and freedom of thought activist.In 1950, she graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law.
- She started working as a lawyer in 1952 and ended her career in 2007 due to health issues.
- Throughout her 55 years of career Çayligil primarily dealt with cases concerning the freedom of thought, and in her first case she defended Adnan Benk following his translation of an article about communism.
- She later worked as a lawyer for many writers, journalists, artists and politicians, including Orhan Apaydin, Ilhan Selçuk, Orhan Kemal, Bilgesu Erenus, Ahmet Altan, Ipek Çalislar, Ilhami Soysal, Dogan Avcioglu, Çetin Altan, Erdal Atabek, Ali Sirmen, Vedat Günyol, Alp Kuran, Ugur Mumcu, Server Tanilli, Memet Fuat, Can Yücel, Nese Düzel, Harun Karadeniz, Talat Turhan and Yalçin Küçük.She worked on a number of famous cases, including Deniz Subaylari's case, Deniz Gezmis and his fellow's case, the Aydinlik newspaper's case, the Madanoglu case, Communist Party of Turkey's case, Cumhuriyet newspaper's case, Turkey Workers and Peasants Party's case, DISK's case, 1984 Intellectuals Petition case, People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey's case, the Revolutionary Left's case and the Peace Association's case.In 2001, together with Yasar Kemal, she received the Orhan Apaydin Democracy and Peace Foundation Award.
- In 2007, together with Hrant Dink and Ragip Zarakolu, she was given the Turkish Journalists' Association Freedom of Press Award as a result of her "contributions to studies on the protection of press freedom".She also worked as the vice chairman of Turkish Bars Association and was also a member of the Executive Board of Istanbul Bar Association Internship Training Center.After 3 years of living in Bodrum, Çayligil died of a heart attack on 10 April 2013.
- After a service in front of Bodrum Court House, her body was buried at the Gümbet Karaburgaz Cemetery.
- On 12 April 2013, her colleagues held a commemoration ceremony in her honor in front of the Istanbul Bar Association headquarters.Following her death, Turkish poet and writer Bilgesu Erenus announced that she had been working on a biography about Çayligil, titled Böyle Bir Dünya: Gülçin Çayligil Davasi.
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