Represented Turkey in fencing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
She completed her undergraduate studies in
She married Nail Çakırhan, a journalist-writer working for Tan Newspaper.
She carried out the control excavation in Kırşehir Hashöyük on behalf of the Turkish Historical Society.
She worked as a visiting professor at Saarbrücken University in Germany in 1962-1963.
In 1964, together with Robert J. Braidwood of the University of Chicago and his wife Linda S. Braidwood, he began excavating the Çayönü mound in Ergani.
She pioneered the work that started in 1966 for the dredging of the areas that will be inundated with the construction of the Keban Dam.
She contributed to the establishment of an Archeometry Unit affiliated to TÜBİTAK
she is retired
she donated her family home, known as “Red Mansion” in Arnavutköy, to Boğaziçi University
she received the Prince Claus award given by the Dutch government to those who serve culture and development
In 2010, T.C. The Culture and Art Grand Prize was given by the Ministry of Culture.
She died on January 12, 2014 at her home in Istanbul.
