The people behind the stories
Everything on our Inspiration pages is written by real people who live these first weeks themselves. Meet them, and read what they’ve written.
Founder · writes the Inspiration stories
Merve Çokal Doğan
Founder of Meşgalem and mother of four boys; she writes the stories on our Inspiration pages.
21 stories
Co-founder
Abdullah Doğan
Merve’s husband and partner in all of it; he looks after everything behind the scenes at Meşgalem.
Guest writer · Physician, mother of four
Uzm. Dr. Meliha Özyalvaç
A friend of Merve’s; a physician and mother of four, writing about the two lives a working mother carries through a single day.
1 story
Guest writer · Nurse, Mete’s mother
Damla Nur Bozkaya
A friend of Merve’s sister Ayşe; a nurse and Mete’s mother, writing about relearning, in her own postpartum weeks, what she had spent years explaining to other mothers.
1 story
Guest writer · Aylin’s mother
Kristina Çelik
A friend of Merve’s. She met her husband Özgür in Russia and moved with him to Türkiye; while building a new life with their daughter Aylin, she found a small ritual of her own in perfume.
1 story
Guest writer · English teacher, mother of three
Zehra Topaç
Merve’s older sister; she has taught English for many years and has two sons and a daughter. She writes about why teaching a child a new language is opening a door onto the world.
1 story
