"Turkey confronts tradition, religion as it pushes to bring girls to school(Updated 4:12 p.m.)
2005/9/28
VAN, Turkey (AP)
It's the second week of school, and Mehmet Sadik Altin, the local imam, charges up to a lopsided concrete home with a mud roof and demands to know why the five girls in the house aren't in class.
'We don't have money for bread,' Meryem Benek shouts at Altin, surrounded by three of her children who were wearing torn plastic shoes and worn-out mudcaked sweaters. 'How can I send my girls to school?'"
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