Turkey politics: 'Women are almost non-existent' says Elif Şafak - BBC News

Elif Şafak, acclaimed author of "The Bastard of Istanbul", says the rise in the numbers of female parliamentarians is not enough. And, she warns, recent statements by Turkish politicians - tellling women to focus on motherhood and not to laugh aloud in public - are counterproductive. BBC Arabic's Hanan Razek has the story.


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