Thursday, June 28, 2012

"The Government Is Trying to Intrude in People's Private Lives" - Qantara.de

The Turkish Women's Rights Activist Selen Lermioğlu Yılmaz''The Government Is Trying to Intrude into People's Private Lives''

In May the Turkish government announced its plan to limit women's access to legal abortion, later dropping the item from the parliament's agenda after harsh reactions from society. While the debate was a divisive one, it did at least provide an umbrella issue beneath which women's groups rallied, says Selen Lermioğlu Yılmaz in this interview

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