emrah goker wrote:
>In most of the provinces of Turkey, a woman older than 13 cannot
have a walk out freely, if she has some *bold* clothing. Furthermore,
that a woman can work is like obsceneity to an average Muslim man.
emrah--
I've spent some time working in the Middle East myself, in Syria
though, not Turkey, and I definitely found all that to be true. As a
Western woman, I was generally treated well by most everyone, except
for those who assumed I was a prostitute from the former Soviet Union
(for example, I once had to punch out an overly "friendly" teenager
while touring Aleppo's Citadel), but I always got the impression that
I was being treated as an honorary man, rather than as a working
woman. The fact that I'm six feet tall may have helped in this
(which is related to the size/dominace thread going on).
Debra Euler
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