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AKP's Zapsu: “Asking A Woman To Take Off Her Turban Is Like Asking A Woman To Take Off Her Panties”
Cuneyd Zapsu who resigned this week from the Central Executive Board of AKP - that he helped found - spoke to reporters yesterday, on his way back from Germany about his resignation and about his views on turban [Islamic headscarf]. He explained that he did not resign from AKP but only from its executive board, to dedicate more time to his business. Zapsu criticized the opposition parties in Turkey and defended AKP’s policy to free turban in universities. Zapsu said, “Even if – as you say - only 50% of the covered women wear the headscarf because of their religious believes, telling them to take off their turbans is the same as asking the woman on the street to take off her underpants”. All mainstream Turkish dailies published Zapsu’s remarks that brought strong reactions from opposition women MPs and women organizations that said that his words were highly inappropriate, humiliating and insulting to women who do not cover their heads. Source: Hurriyet, Sabah, Cumhuriyet, Turkey, March 6, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-06
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