Saadet İshaki Çağatay

Saadet Çağatay (née İshaki; ; 27 July 1907 – 24 June 1989) was a Turkish turkologist, professor and writer of Tatar descent. She was a significant developer of Turkology in Turkey. Her father was the politician-writer Ayaz İshaki.

Early life Saadet İshaki (later Çağatay) was born in village of Yaushirme, Kazan. Her father Ayaz divorced her mother Meryem (Məryəm) in 1908, and she spent her childhood mostly with her grandfather Ğiləcetdin xəzrət.

When Çağatay graduated from the primary school of her village, she started studying in Mariisnkaya Gymnasium. After the October Revolution, her father had to flee to Berlin. During that time, Çağatay was being taken care of by her uncle and aunt. In 1922, Ayaz Ishaki invited her daughter to Berlin, but Çağatay was denied a passport at Kazan. A little later, Çağatay traveled to Saint Petersburg where she met smugglers. They were able to arrange her to Finland, though in there, Çağatay was put in a month long quarantine due to an ongoing pandemic in where she came from. Eventually her father came to the country and they traveled together to Berlin.