"Turkey's equal education challenge
Nation's tradition, religion impede efforts to bring girls to school
Wednesday, September 28, 2005; Posted: 9:35 p.m. EDT (01:35 GMT)
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 inside aren't in class."
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