Walking Proudly Into the 19th Century

May 30th, 2008 By: Claudia, Assistant Editor | Tags:
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The Diyanet (Ministry on Religious Affairs) in Turkey apparently would like to remind Turkish women of their place, and also that they are living provocations to male sexual urges. In the words of the recent report by the Diyanet:

“Women have to be more careful, since they have stimulants,”

Unacceptable provocative behaviour includes flirting with men, wearing perfume outside the home and exposing skin. Also unmarried men and women shouldn’t be alone together and mixed-gender workplaces are not a good idea.

I wonder if they would also like women to be forbidden from driving and for them to need 4 male witnesses to prove rape, since it sounds like they’d much rather be like Iran and Saudi Arabia than be a island of moderate Islam.

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  1. A. A. B.
    May 31st, 2008 at 19:10
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    The Diyanet is quite sensible to political developments in Turkey. (It actually is a public body under parliamentary supervision, not a ministry).
    As far as a I heard about this sexist article, apparently it was originally written under the Islamist Erbakan government (he ended up in prison soon), and re-published on that website website now, some months ago, under the current AKP government.

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