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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Trending: 'You will understand when you have a daughter'

Trending: 'You will understand when you have a daughter'

Should unmarried girls and boys be allowed to live together? A battle over mixed-gender student houses has broken out on Turkish social media.

Earlier this week, Duygu Kumru, a PhD student in Istanbul, used her phone to check Twitter. She saw that thousands of fellow students were directing sarcastic messages at the prime minister, using the same angry hashtag: "We Are Girls And Boys Staying In The Same House."

More:BBC News - Trending: 'You will understand when you have a daughter'