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Turkish philosopher — value theory, human rights and the ethics of Kant and Scheler
Maltepe University (UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights); earlier Hacettepe University · Turkey · d. 4 October 1936 (Istanbul) — 2 October 2026 (Istanbul)
A Turkish philosopher of Greek descent, born in Istanbul, who built value theory and human rights into a single programme. A student of Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu, she founded the philosophy department at Hacettepe University and later held a UNESCO Chair in Philosophy and Human Rights at Maltepe. She led the International Federation of Philosophical Societies as president from 1998 to 2003, and died two days before her ninetieth birthday.
Ioanna Kuçuradi, the Turkish philosopher who in 1998 became the first woman to preside over the world federation of philosophical societies and who argued that human rights follow from what a human being is rather than from any treaty, has died in Istanbul at 89, two days before her ninetieth birthday.
Ioanna Kuçuradi
