Sel Yackley, an award winning journalist, was born and reared in Turkey. After receiving her master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, she worked for United Press International and for The Chicago Tribune. When her husband finished law school in 1970, they moved to central Illinois where Sel became active in local politics as well as civic, and charitable organizations. Once her three children were in college, and ten years after her husband's suicide, Sel returned to Chicago to work in the travel business from which she retired recently. On the boards of several international groups, Sel, an award-winning journalist, continues to write, organize tours to Turkey, and lecture on mental health issues throughout the Midwest. http://www.tawsf.org/Sel.htm http://www.wearetheturks.org/?p=304