by
Steven A. Cook
March 23, 2012
Bahraini woman protester reads Quran after evening prayers at Pearl Square in Bahraini capital of Manama (Hamad I Mohammed/Courtesy Reuters)
A look at gender equality within the controversial Gulen movement’s educational institutions in Turkey.
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The Margaret Spiegelmen article is misleading, especially when it quotes her friends from Istanbul University who have been crying that the sky is falling for the last ten years because the AK Party is in party. Turkey is the only country in the world where headscarved women — there are 18 million in Turkey – are banned from public employment (over 2 million jobs) and not allowed to teach in most schools, and only recently were allowed to attend high schools and universities. It’s not secularism as we know it but severe violations of religious freedom. Yes, definitely, Turkey is a male-dominated society and patriarchy reigns for all men, Islamic and so-called secular, white Turks, but it has nothing to do with the Gulenists per se. Richard Peres, author of “The Day Turkey Stood Still: Merve Kavakci’s Walk into the Turkish Parliament” to be published by Ithaca Press in June.