Thank God. Finally, we have heard something nice about women from the president: “Violence against women is a betrayal of humanity.”
The misfortunes women have to live through in this country never end. You must have seen it, read about it or heard about it.
The judge who reduces the sentence because of good conduct is guilty. Bülent Arınç, deputy prime minister, who said “Women should be chaste; she should not laugh loudly in public,” is guilty.
The Women Employment Law is on the agenda; it could pass in parliament any moment. Women in this country, you know, are regularly being encouraged to give birth. The law enables new mothers to work part-time and receive a full salary.
After my column about the transforming of the regular teachers’ high school in the inner Aegean city of Afyon into a girls’ imam-preacher high school (the religious vocational high schools), readers’ mails poured in. Here are some of them:
