When the Daily News began the Women in Sight page last summer, we hoped to tell stories of women in Turkey with the plainspoken complexity and modest heroism that such a broad spectrum embodies. After spending a day or a decade in this country, it is easy to see that women, not issues, speak for themselves.
ISTANBUL - Efforts to reverse progress in women’s rights are filtering through Turkish authorities, says pioneer in Turkey’s women’s movement, Pınar İlkkaracan. She talks with the Daily News about local power and a new book she has edited on sexuality in the Middle East.
An interesting piece of news came out yesterday in the British newspaper "The Daily Telegraph." Newly opened secret files, according to the newspaper, seem to suggest that during World War I, Britain paid $1.5 million dollars to Enver Pasha in order to have the Ottoman Empire withdraw its forces from fighting, but that when peace did not persist, part of this money was paid back to the British.