Suzy Hansen: Turkey’s Women Strike Back

There is a temptation to attribute this dismal record to the AKP’s promotion of conservative Islam. Indeed, as Islamist parties have gained power across the Middle East, there have been growing concerns—in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere—that women are being sidelined. And Turkey’s growing ties with the conservative Sunni governments of North Africa and the Gulf region have done little to allay such fears. And yet, in many ways, the status of women in Turkey has as much to do with the patriarchal tendencies of the Turkish Republic itself.

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