Saturday, January 18, 2014

History, HerStory, and Islam in Turkey - Al Arabiya News

History, HerStory, and Islam in Turkey
Saturday, 18 January 2014
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Ceylan Ozbudak

As a free Turkish woman, I acknowledge the movements for political equality, which transformed Western society in the 19th and 20th centuries. However, the modern Turkish women of the democratic Republic of Turkey owe their equality, not to feminist sentiments imported from the West, but to reforms introduced under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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