Turkey's evolving feminist movement
07/09/2011
Despite major successes, Turkey's fractured feminist movements need to resolve their own differences.
By Aaron Stein for Southeast European Times in Istanbul -- 07/09/11
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Conservative feminists share many of the same interests as liberal feminists -- women's rights, education for women, and stopping domestic violence. [Reuters]
Turkish women have theoretically been equal to men since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk introduced the country's drastic modernisation reforms during the 1920s. Having changed the law, Ataturk then closed the book on women's rights, believing that he had solved the problem.
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