Zeynep Zafer and Nurie Muratova (2022): Tyurkologiya v izgnanie. Mefkyure Mollova. Blagoevgrad: Blagoevgrad University Press.
Mefküre Mollova was the first Turkish woman and university professor in Bulgaria, who defended her Ph.D. thesis in the field of turkology and gained international fame for her research. She is the author of over 150 publications in prestigious international journals that continue to be cited today. Mefküre Mollova was among the founders of the Turkish Philology at the University of Sofia. She had worked for only about 7 years (1953- 1961), when she and her husband were dismissed from their academic positions on false claims, and the Department was closed. She remained outside the academia until the end of her life. Mefküre devoted herself to unexplored issues of Turkish dialectology, related to the Turkish dialects in Bulgaria and other linguistic topics. Although unemployed and persecuted in communist Bulgaria, Mefküre Mollova was able to publish her work both in the country and abroad. Her outstanding research, which received recognition in the world of turkology, makes her the most accomplished and productive academic expert from Bulgaria in this field. She published her research in four languages – French, Turkish, Bulgarian, and Russian, but mostly in French. Mefküre Mollova was also the first Turkish poet to publish poems in Turkish periodicals and the only woman who managed to publish an independent collection of poems in Turkish in Bulgaria.
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