Controversy over legacy of Turkish painting legend

An officially registered Art Nouveau mansion on 3.5 hectares of land on the Istanbul island Büyükada, as well as the works of many famous painters in the mansion…

Valuable antiques…
 
One apartment block in Nişantaşı, five apartment blocks in Şişli, and around 20 shops…
 
A house and studio worth at least 1 million euros in the most prestigious areas of Paris…

Some 47,000 euros in a bank account in Paris...
 
This is the legacy of Tiraje Dikmen, one of the most important names in Turkish painting, who died three years ago. This legacy has been left to decay.
 
In the two most recent editions of the Istanbul Art News newspaper, the issue was given front-page coverage. 
 
The example shows that justice in our country also gets stuck somewhere, even when the issue is about art and education. 
 
Due to disputes that she had with her sister, Dikmen prepared her will in her 40s. She left all that she had to the Department of Economics at Istanbul University, from where she graduated. She wanted her legacy to be given as scholarships to students in need.
 
Dikmen had first studied business at the university, then she did her master's degree, and then her PhD on the situation of women workers during the Ottoman and Republican eras. It is obvious that she felt a duty of loyalty to this university, where she spent some of her best years.
 
Upon her death, you would expect the university to immediately make a claim to the inheritance that was left to it… But according to the statements made by Dikmen's lawyer and trustee Cengiz Akıncı to Istanbul Art News, the university did not make a claim for the inheritance and did not make much effort for the execution of the will during the necessary legal...

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