- Keriman Halis Ece
Keriman Halis Ece (born 1913) is a former Turkish beauty contestant, who became
Miss Turkey 1932.Biography
She was born in
Istanbul ,Turkey as one of the six children of a merchant, Tevfik Halis Bey, in 1913. Her uncle was a renownedoperatta composer Muhlis Sabahattin Ezgi and her aunt a well-known musician and composer Neveser Kökdeş.She participated 1932 in the Miss Turkey
beauty pageant that started only in 1929 and was promoted by the newspaper "Cumhuriyet ". She was elected the most beautiful Turkish woman in the contest held onJuly 2 ,1932 in İstanbul among eight candidates. Following the introduction of the surname act onJune 21 ,1934 ,Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave her the family name "Ece", which means "queen" inTurkish language .References
* [http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:FjE2QGryv9sJ:www.thy.com/en-INT/skylife/archive/en/2001_9/konu9.htm+Keriman+Halis&hl=tr&ct=clnk&cd=61#1 Skylife magazine]
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