介绍:
In today's OU section, we'll talk about Turkish women protesting over their right to laugh in public.
Thousands of Turkish women have taken to social media in protest of Turkish deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc's Eid speech where he urged women not to laugh in public.
Turkish women across the country uploaded pictures of themselves laughing and smiling and posted more than 300,000 tweets using the hastag "kahkaha" or "laughter" in Turkish.
Arinc's speech, which comes as Muslims everywhere mark the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid celebrations, was meant to target "the moral decline of modern society".
As well as laughter in public, Arinc also takes aim at Turkish soap operas and the excessive use of mobile phones.
The speech caused critics of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's current ruling Justice and Development AKP party, in which Arinc was one of the co founders, to accuse them of deliberately trying to wear down Turkey's strict separation between religion and state.
Arinc has claimed that his speech was about general rules on ethics and good manners targeting both men and women and that he stands by his words.
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(JA) Michael J Alexander from hurriyetdailynews.com comments
This has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with a man wanting to return to conservative values, values which are exemplified by this man's interpretation of his religion.
(QD) Zeki Murad from theguardian.com comments
The AKP should concentrate on managing the country instead of micro-managing people's lives.
(FA) Coeurnoir from theguardian.com comments
Love it. Good on the Turks! However, I was under the impression that the Koran's quite explicit about women's "alluring" voices. Was this what the deputy was referring to?
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Notes:
- Bulent Arinc defended his speech by saying that it was interpreted out of context. He claimed that he was not just targeting women but men also, urging men to love their wives and be faithful to them, they must not be womanizers.
- He said his speech, which was about general rules in ethics and good manners, took an hour and a half but some people took a section of it and criticized it.
- Arinc had also urged women not to go on vacation without their husbands.
- This isn't the first time AKP came under fire. Erdogan had previously made comments that abortion is murder, which also promted women to take to social media and post their retaliation most of which where pictures of their bellies which read "My body, my business"
- This comes as Erdogan is preparing for the presidential campaign on the 10th of August.
- Among the pictures posted online was one of Erdogan's wife Emine shown laughing and clapping alongside a female minister.
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(JA) warriorone from dailymail.co.uk
the whole world should fight Islamic extremists and delusional totalitarian psychopaths who are legally violating our human rights and hiding behind religion
(QD) Bazzer69 from dailymail.co.uk comments
And we are all supposed to believe that Turkey was a forward looking secular country that would be an asset to the EU if they joined
(FA) Sra S from youtube.com comments
STOP making fun and attacking things that you do NOT understand, he may put in words in the wrong way, but that's not the point, the point is modesty, you can laugh all you want but there's a difference in how a prostitute laughs and is all in all loud, now you don't see duchess Kate or queen Elizabeth doing that because they have to act like ladies who are self respectful and modest, and we Muslim women are ladies.
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