Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party, she went on to concurrently serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997. As a Professor of Economics, Çiller was appointed as Minister of State with responsibility for the economy by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in 1991. When Demirel was elected as President in 1993, Çiller was
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