English: Saadet Ozkan at the International Women of Courage Awards 2017

First Lady Melania Trump presents the 2017 International Women of Courage Award on March 29, 2017. https://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos/33338550970/in/album-72157681980941045/ (photo is incorrectly labeled on Flickr)

"Saadet Ozkan, born in 1978 in Izmir, is a former primary school teacher and a gender activist who has become a champion for victims of child abuse. Saadet received undergraduate degrees in Public Relations and Communications from Anadolu University in Eskisehir in 1995, followed by a teaching degree in 2004. She deliberately chose to work in a village school, believing she could make a difference that way. After uncovering a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse in the school, she forced a criminal investigation of her principal, persevering in the face of pressure to drop the case. When a serious car accident left her bed-ridden for several months, she organized support from the Izmir Bar Association and the Turkish Confederation of Women's Associations to help carry the case forward. She is now a private consultant still supporting the victims and their case, and hopes to establish an NGO that will fight child abuse." [1]