"Siddiqui: An Istanbul family defies all clichés
2011/07/20 21:50:00
By Haroon Siddiqui Editorial Page
ISTANBUL
Turkey has had legal gender equality for nearly a century. It had a female prime minister, Tansu Ciller, long before Germany got Angela Merkel as chancellor. But that doesn’t mean Turkey is no longer patriarchal, any more than Germany is free of entrenched gender discrimination."
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