News and Comment Women should not laugh in public says Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister
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News Women in Turkey and around the world took to social media this week posting pictures of themselves laughing, after Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç commented that women should not laugh in public. There has been outrage from the Western media, and the statement is viewed as proof of the "Islamist" sentiments of the AKP government and their desire to erode the secular nature or Ataturk's republic. "[The woman] will…
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