Türkân Akyol cabinet of Tansu Çiller, Turkey's first woman prime minister. Akyol died at a hospital in Ankara on 7 September 2017 at the age of 88. She was buried at the Karşıyaka Cemetery following the religious funeral at Maltepe Mosque. She was mother of two children. There is a hospital in Bursa carrying her name. Türkân Akyol Türkân Akyol (October 12, 1928 – September 7, 2017) was a Turkish politician, physician and academic. She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey. Türkan Akyol was born on October 12, 1928 in Istanbul. She completed
K. S. Maniam K. S. Maniam Subramaniam Krishnan (born 1942), popularly known as K. S. Maniam, is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist. K. S. Maniam has been writing from his early teens. His stories have appeared in numerous journals around the world. His first novel, "The Return", was published in 1981 and the second, "In a Far Country", in 1993. He won the first prize for "The Loved Flaw: Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–McDonald short-story contest (1987) and for "Haunting the Tiger: Contemporary Stories from Malaysia" in "The New Straits Times"–Shell contest (1990). He is the inaugural recipient of