This amazing woman, the most famous Sumerologist in Turkey, the author of more than 20 scientific papers, turned 106 this June. But in one of the interviews timed to coincide with her birthday, she said: «I’ve worked and continue to work.» Muazzez Ilmiye Chig is called the «Last Queen of the Sumerians» in Turkey, but few people know that she has Crimean Tatar roots.
