Educational rights for women remain motionless in Turkey
by Kate Riley
on April 27, 2013
ISTANBUL — Despite major education initiatives and social reformations since the time of Ataturk, many girls in Turkey still do not receive an education.
Mustafa Kemal, now better known as Ataturk, or “Father of Turks,” is credited with founding the modern Republic of Turkey and was the first president of Turkey. Ataturk’s many social, political and economic reforms were embedded in the six fundamental principles of what is now known as “Kemalism.”
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