death_date death_place birth_place image_size parents birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
22 march 2001 ankara , turkey bursa , hüdavendigâr vilayet , ottoman empire 180px mustafa İzzet bey and hayriye hanım 22 march 1913 first turkish woman to fly during conflict . 180px-sabiha gökçen.jpg sabiha gökçen
 sabiha gökçen aviator , author and spokesperson
sabiha gökçen

sabiha gökçen -lrb- ; 22 march 1913 -- 22 march 2001 -rrb- was a turkish aviator .
she was the first turkish female combat pilot , aged 23 .
according to some sources she was also the world 's first female fighter pilot ; however , others such as marie marvingt and eugenie mikhailovna shakhovskaya both preceded her .
she was one of the eight adopted children of mustafa kemal atatürk .
in the 21st century , gökçen made headlines and sparked controversy when , in 2007 , hrant dink , a journalist of turkish-armenian descent , published an interview with sabiha 's niece that revealed that she was of armenian origin .
her adopted sister Ülkü adatepe disputed this during an interview , stating that sabiha was actually of bosniak ancestry .
