"Being a feminist in Turkey...
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Elif ŞAFAK
The other day I had tea with a woman scholar from Chicago who had recently been on vacation in a summer resort along Turkey's Mediterranean coast. She and her extended family had then visited Istanbul and she wanted to share her impressions with me, which I listened with great interest and delight. As one subject led to another, we talked enthusiastically about culture, politics and family structures in our respective countries. She being very religious, I not at all, we politely refrained from the subject of religion, although I noticed, with a slight discomfort, that she saw absolutely nothing in common between Christianity and Islam, and treated the latter as �an immature faith system� at best, and �the product of some backward cultures� at worst. "
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