"Row about Dutch ‘infidel’ in Turkish soap
Published on: Saturday 20 Nov 2010, 23:01 by Fréderike Geerdink in Human Rights, Media, Stories
Written for: news agency ANP
ISTANBUL – Her beauty is dazzling, but she’s not particularly loved, Dutch Caroline in the Turkish soap opera ‘How time flies’. She is the forbidden love of a man from a middle class family and is referred to again and again as ‘gavur’, meaning infidel. A Turkish government commission has now warned the writers of the series about this ‘discrimination’, according to reports in several Turkish media on Saturday."
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