“What my male colleague can’t do, I will do. What I can’t do, my male colleague will do. It’s a job for a team.” Women join the ranks of Istanbul firefighters for the first time
The Istanbul fire brigades are celebrating their 307th anniversary. But it is the season of a first: it is the first time that female firefighters have graduated along with their male peers in Istanbul. Fit, healthy and motivated, they cannot wait to serve the public.
“I am a firefighter now,” she says, with a hint of pride in her voice, at the graduation ceremony held at Cebeci Sports Complex in Sultangazi, Istanbul. She says she trained to be a firefighter for six years, with two years before her university and four years at the university. Asked if she is happy about having become a firefighter, she says she had some trepidation at first, when she first joined the brigade. “Some of my colleagues had been studying to be a firefighter since high school, since college. They were more knowledgeable than I was. I had studied to be a nutritionist,” she shares.
Her family still lives in Trabzon, while she has moved to Istanbul for her job. As for working alongside her male peers, she says at first everyone questioned whether women could do it. “But when we started the applied courses, we proved them wrong as ‘the girls,’” she smiles.
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