Seyran Ateş

Seyran Ateş is, to me, one of the bravest figures in this whole database. Born in Istanbul, she became a lawyer in Germany and then founded a liberal Berlin mosque where men and women pray side by side, breaking with tradition under real threat to her safety. That takes a spine most of us will never need to test. I won't pretend to settle debates about faith, but I deeply respect anyone who keeps a door open while taking fire from every direction. Her stack of merit awards feels almost secondary to the simple, stubborn act of refusing to back down. Remarkable conviction.

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Name (English)

Seyran Ateş

Name (Japanese)

セイラン・アテシュ

Reading

せいらん・あてしゅ

Born

April 20, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey

Occupation

lawyer / women's rights activist / writer / imam / jurist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• Order of Merit of Berlin
• 2007 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2014 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2006 Margherita von Brentano prize
• Johann Philipp Palm Award
• Marion Dönhoff Award

• Official sitehttps://seyranates.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/seyranates_official/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyran%20Ate%C5%9F
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%86%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106748

Tags

• Istanbul Province
• lawyer
• women's rights activist
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.