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Tülay Tura Börtecene graduated from the Painting Department of the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts in 1959. She started her artistic career with an abstract expressionist style and continued her career in national and international exhibitions. Tura, participated in the 1961 Paris and 1962 Venice Biennales with her works in a strong expressionist style. After returning to Turkey in 1963, she worked with Devrim Erbil, Altan Gürman, Sarkis and Adnan Çoker in the group of artists called Mavi Grup. Adopting a figurative style in the 1970s and 1980s, the painter returned to her abstract expressionist attitude, after 1990. This research, tries to focus on the art works of Tülay Tura Börtecene, who has an important place in Turkish art history and about whom we have little evaluation. In this research, the works of the artist in different styles in her art life are discussed, by dividing them into periods with an art historical approach. It was seen that the artist created works in a simultaneous and common manner with other contemporary abstract expressionist artists who were present in Europe and America. In addition to that, in this research, the period shaped by the political events that were decisive in the transition of the artist to the figurative style was evaluated. and the new abstract expressionist attitude chosen by Tülay Tura, who returned to the first point where she started in her art life in her last period, is discussed. Tülay Tura Börtecene, whose works are in the collection of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum and has represented Turkey in international exhibitions, is one of the first female painters in Turkey to produce and exhibit abstract expressionist paintings.