Emel Gazimihal
{{Short description|Turkish radio presenter (1912–1998)}}
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| birth_name = Emel Öget
| birth_date = 1912
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| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey
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| resting_place = Zincirlikuyu Cemetery, Istanbul
| nationality = Turkish
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| occupation = Radio presenter
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| known_for = First Turkish female speaker
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Emel Öget Gazimihal (1912–1998) was the first female radio presenter in Turkey.
Biography
Emel Öget was born in 1912.[https://www.myheritage.com/research?formId=master&formMode=&action=query&qname=Name%20fn.%20fnmo.2%20fnmsvos.1%20fnmsmi.1%20ln.gazimihal%20lnmo.4%20lnmsdm.1%20lnmsmf3.1%20lnmsrs.1 mey heritage page] Her father's name was Fevzi Öget. She married Tahsin Gazimihal.
In 1937, she was serving for the Turkish PTT in Istanbul. In the 1930s, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) was not yet established, and the radio broadcasting was under the responsibility of the Turkish PTT. After an audition, she was recruited as the news speaker of Ankara Radio. She went to Ankara and immediately began working without any preliminary training. She recalls that in the early days of the radio, there was no standard acoustic treatment in the studio and the walls were covered by carpets.[http://www.trtarsiv.com/izle/82809/emel-gazimihal-ankara-radyosu-na-baslamasini-anlatiyor TRT page Interview with Emel Gazimihal {{in lang|tr}}]
On 1 October 1937,[http://www.bbc.com/turkce/lg/multimedya/2009/11/091113_anni_album_40lar.shtml BBC Turkish page {{in lang|tr}}] she was sent by the government to London, England to take training at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for six months. She returned to Turkey to continue as the only permanent female speaker. She served in Ankara Radio as a news speaker and during World War II, Turkish people learned the course of the war by her voice. In 1951, she returned to Istanbul, and served about ten years in Istanbul Radio. She retired in 1962.[http://www.trtarsiv.com/izle/71075/ilk-kadin-radyo-spikeri-emel-gazimihal-ile-roportaj TRT page Emel Gazimihal with Halit Kıvanç {{in lang|tr}}]
Emel Gazimihal died in 1998, and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
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