"Thomas Siebert, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: July 12. 2008 8:30PM UAE / July 12. 2008 4:30PM GMT
Turkey’s ministry of education has launched an initiative so that girls can go to school instead of being kept at home. Kerem Uzel for The National
ISTANBUL // A washing machine, given to her family in Turkey’s poor south-eastern region by local officials, enabled Fatma Kana to go back to school after being kept home by her father."
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