[DED]

Unexpected at least to ME. I wouldn't expect an article like this from ANYPLACE in that part of the world, or where Islam is the primary religion.

[a_Turk]

>> Unexpected at least to ME.

Turks are a central asian people. Middle eastern culture is grafted on them. Men and women worked and fought side by side while their tribes migrated through the area. Turks remained a mostly rural society until urbanization picked up momentum in the 60s. This allowed most Turks to preserve their tribal customs. Turkish village women are in no way oppressed. They mostly vote with the left.

But once they start settling in cities where they try to initially duplicate village life by building small houses on squatted on land (creating slums), they get picked up by "charitable" organizations who then try to teach them how to be modest(!!). It's politics.. Most don't buy it.

Anyhow, the womans role in rural and nomadic Turkic culture is totally different than Arabian culture. We're not bearing the burden of the old mesopotamian cultures like the Sumerians I wrote of in a message above.

Cavalry archers vs camel riders..