Beran Bertuğ

Beran Bertuğ served as the kaymakam of the Gazimağusa District of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. She was the first woman to hold this post.

Beran Bertuğ
Kaymakam of the Gazimağusa District
Assumed office
7 July 2009
Preceded byİsmail Gündost
Personal details
Born6 October 1956
Famagusta, Cyprus
Alma materEge University

Born on 6 October 1956 in Famagusta, Cyprus, Bertuğ finished the city’s established Gazi Primary School and Famagusta Namık Kemal High School.[1]

Following her secondary education in Cyprus, she pursued her higher education in Izmir, Turkey where she finished university with a degree in Chemical Engineering.[1]

She started her teaching career in 1981 as a secondary school teacher and continued this until 2009 becoming a Vice Headmistress of Namik Kemal High School, where she taught chemistry for many years. During her teaching career at NKL, she actively encouraged participation of her school in the “Sister Schools Programme” to foster close links with other secondary education institutions in Cyprus and Turkey.[2]

In April 2009 Bertuğ was appointed as the first female kaymakam of Famagusta, a role which she held until 8 November 2013.[3] She also became the first Cypriot woman to hold this role. Bertuğ is married and is a mother of two.[4]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "www.rotagazetesi.com". www.rotagazetesi.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  3. "Gazimağusa Kaymakamlığı'nda görev devir-teslimi yapıldı - KIBRIS POSTASI - KIBRIS HABERLERİ". Kibris Postasi. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  4. "İlk kadın kaymakam görev başında - KIBRIS POSTASI - KIBRIS HABERLERİ". Kibris Postasi. 28 February 2007. Retrieved 7 September 2010.

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