A country where women are deemed invisible
 
 
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26 May 2013 Sunday
 
 
 
 
 
 

A country where women are deemed invisible

22 November 2010 /AHMET TAŞGETİREN
If women are invisible in Turkey, as cited by a UN Development Programme (UNDP) report, the main reason for this is that those who maintain the status quo pretend to be very sensitive about women’s education but do not heed the Islamic sensitivities of women.

The established order in Turkey has from the very beginning acted on the “modern woman” norm and excluded “women who want to practice Islamic rules.” Let’s think this way: If women had an opportunity to receive an education without the need to take off their headscarves, if educated women had an opportunity to freely exist in all fields of life, if there had not been a status quo obsession with covered women overshadowing Turkey’s Western image, would women be so invisible in Turkey?

 
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