Turkish women

Turkish conservative social engineering: Building more prisons; Freeing headscarf for students, banning make-up, tattoos and piercings

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Gov’t frees headscarf for students, bans make-up, tattoos and piercings  Hurriyet Daily News A government decree changing the regulation on the dress code in public schools is published in the Official Gazette Turkey is Building 207 Prisons, 103 Courthouses  Bianet :: English Justice Ministry has announced that they will build 207 new prisons and 103 courthouses with … Read more

Selfie with the Bears. A social fabric roundup from Turkey

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Turkey is doing her best to be selfie champions… if you don’t believe here is the video. ***************** Turkeys turtle beach, saved from bulldozers in the 1980s, faces new threat from developers World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Liz Boulter The 91-year-old Englishwoman who famously saved the beach a key nesting site for loggerhead turtles … Read more

Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Kadınlar, öldürülen Ebru Torun’un davasına sahip çıkacak

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Kadınlar, öldürülen Ebru Torun’un davasına sahip çıkacak   Öldürülen Ebru Torun’un davasına sahip çıkan kadın hakları aktivistleri Twitter’da, kadın cinayetlerine karşı adım atmak için davayı sahiplenme çağrısı yaptı. Sosyal medya derlemesini burada:   [View the story “Kadınlar, öldürülen Ebru Torun’un davasına sahip çıkacak” on Storify]

EFD Haftanın Sitesi: Reçel Blog

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http://recel-blog.com/ Blog kendini şöyle tanıtıyor: Kadınların ve bilhassa Müslüman [İslamcı Kadınlar olarak okunabilir, E. S.] kadınların; gündelik deneyimlerine, toplumsal meseleleri algılayışlarına, ilgilerine, meraklarına, dertlerine, umutlarına, kaygılarına, mücadelelerine dair kendi sözümüzü söyleyeceğimiz bir mecramız olsun istedik. Kalemimizi, klavyemizi, tenceremizi, meyvelerimizi, şekerimizi aldık geldik. Reçel zamanla size kendisini anlatacaktır. Hakkında kısmı daha açık olabilir, yazarlar hakkında da … Read more

Turkish Ministry of Family attacks Singles. In a way both plagiaristic and pro-ISIS

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The Ministry might have some innocent intentions (!) by urging single living people to form families because there will be less consumption by being a member of a family. However the image below used for the latest campaign was an immediate reminder of ISIS and its beheadings in our current historical context. Thinking of relative sympathy for ISIS … Read more

Babacan now chastised by Ağaoğlu…. US Department of State gives support to Çarşı fan group…

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Business tycoon Ağaoğlu slams Turkish deputy PM’s vow to shift focus from construction Ali Ağaoğlu, a construction mogul known for his close ties with the government, has denounced Ali Babacan’s pledge to shift the focus to developing industry, rather than construction ‘You Will Do Anything for Ratings’: More Outrage over the Wife Killer ‘Star’ of Turkish Daytime … Read more

Social fabric roundup: thousands of students placed in religious schools ‘against their will’

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Turkey’s education row deepens as thousands placed in religious schools ‘against their will’ Turkey’s secondary education examination row has deepened, amid reports that thousands of students, including some non-Muslims, have been placed in Islamic vocational schools for the upcoming school year. Turkish policeman jailed for killing BBC News | Europe | World Edition A Turkish policeman … Read more

NYT Piece: “Turkey’s Failed Foreign Policy

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  Turkey’s Failed Foreign Policy nytimes.com – Aaron Stein – Aug 22 – Geneva — In 2002, Turkey ‘s Justice and Development Party, known as the A.K.P., turned to Ahmet Davutoglu, then an obscure academic, to help craft its new foreign policy. In 2009, he became foreign minister and was soon attempting to resolve Isis surges towards the … Read more

Ayşe Özer: BİR ERKEK İSMİ OLARAK İFFET

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BİR ERKEK İSMİ OLARAK İFFET Kadın hakkı yoktur çünkü Hakkı bir erkek ismidir. Ay ne komik, yerlere yatıp debelenerek gülesim geldi de, kıyafetim müsait değil. Kız çocuklarına giydirdikleri uzun donlardan giyelim mi bundan sonra eteklerimizin altına? Zira karşımızdaki abiler ergen zekasına ve libidosuna sahip. Parkta kaydırağa çıkarken arkamızdan öküz gözleriyle bakabilirler. Öküz gözü bir şarap … Read more

Withholding @fuatavni account might actually mean for @Twitter to bow down to Turkish government…

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Unlike many previous accounts that are withheld, Fuat Avni does not violate users’ privacy but provides insights about the government. I could not verify yet, but I hear Twitter might actually try a legal process to undo the request. We will see…   Twitter withholds account of whistleblower Fuat Avni in Turkey Today’s Zaman Twitter withheld access to the Twitter account … Read more

Not surprising Pew Reserch Findings: Polarization increases in Turkey… Erdoğan’s favorability in the region falls…

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Turkish deputy PM slams women ‘having vacation without husbands’ Bülent Arınç defends his criticism against ‘laughing women’ with a puzzling complaint about ‘pole climbers’ Spam messages reign in Turkish presidential hopefuls’ campaigns Turkey’s presidential hopefuls have continued campaigning by sending text messages to mobile phone users Turks Divided on Erdogan and the Country’s Direction pewglobal.org – Jul 30, 2:55 … Read more

Bülent Arınç finally made him a laughing stock at a global scale…

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However, he is not a marginal figure. He represents the governing party that’s transforming Turkey… And by the way, he repeatedly makes similar statements, most remain in domestic sphere.  But this laughing issue seems to have gone beyond Turkey…  Sometimes he functions like a political troll. As the AKP is under pressure in both domestic politics (check … Read more

An Occupy Gezi protester joins PKK guerillas when she is tried for 98 years….

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Girl with red foulard’ joins PKK Hurriyet Daily News–35 minutes agoShare Ayşe Deniz Karacagil spent four months in custody and became publicly known as ?the girl with the red foulard? as police and prosecutors … News in Turkish here.  In the mean time:  Austrian foreign minister blames Erdoğan for ?disorder? in Vienna amid thousands? protest Hurriyet Daily … Read more

Check out AKP’s mayor in Bingöl. He refuses to let women hold positions at municipal council….

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AKP mayor in Bingöl refuses to let women hold positions at municipal council Hurriyet Daily News The new AKP mayor in the eastern town has refused to let women elected to the local municipal council hold positions of responsibility on religious grounds ******* Graft suspect Halkbank ex-manager appointed as new board member of state-run Ziraat … Read more

International Women’s Day celebrated in Istanbul and elsewheres…

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The march was without much incident. Police did not let women enter Taksim Square but this was relatively quiet a peaceful and joyful event… AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto-Women clash with Turkish police on Istiklal Avenue to mark World women day pic.twitter.com/5xEAVCarr8 This was a minor clash with a particular left wing group and police…. Police close Gezi Park … Read more