Turkish First Lady: harem was 'school' for women

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Turkish First Lady: harem was 'school' for women



ANKARA: -- Turkey’s First Lady has called the harem of Ottoman sultans a “school” preparing women for life, according to local media.

Westerners often think of harems as the sultan’s sexual playground, but Emine Erdogan called it an educational institution for members of the Ottoman dynasty. She was speaking at an official event on Ottoman sultans in Ankara, according to Turkish TV stations.

The sultans who ruled the Ottoman empire for six centuries had a harem at Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, which was turned into a museum after the birth of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

The harem did have strict rules on the recruitment and education of courtesans. Each woman would receive an education in a discipline in which she showed promise – for example calligraphy, decorative arts, music or foreign languages — and the most capable could rise to wield enormous influence over the court.

But Emine Erdogan’s comments came under fire on social media, just a day after her husband marked International Women’s Day by saying he believed “a woman is above all a mother”, which prompted street protests in Istanbul.

The Erdogans regularly speak of their attachment to the values of the Ottoman empire, which collapsed in the early twentieth century. Critics accuse the pair and the conservative government of trying to impose a strict Islam and curtailing women’s rights. Erdogan has in the past urged Turkish women to have at least three children and labeled efforts to promote birth control “treason”.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-11

[NongKhaiKid]

The Good ( Muslim ) Wife saying the right things.

Don't forget Mad Merkel wants to fast track Turkish membership of the EU in return for bailing her out of the trouble her mouth got Europe into.

[Galactus]

10s of millions of turks live in Europe for decades.

in Germany, turks are the biggest majority and yet less trouble comes from them if you compare with other majorities or even when you compare with the crime rates of German citizens.

Turks are not Arabs, dont mix them to each other.

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[seedy]

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[Usernames]

10s of millions of turks live in Europe for decades.

in Germany, turks are the biggest majority and yet less trouble comes from them if you compare with other majorities or even when you compare with the crime rates of German citizens.

Turks are not Arabs, dont mix them to each other.

Turks the majority in Germany? Somebody should tell this to the Germans. I thought they had a few decades yet before they were replaced with moslem migrants.

[Ulic]

The girls in the harem got taught alright. ........Taught to, bark like a dog.

[Steely Dan]

The girls in the harem got taught alright. ........Taught to, bark like a dog.

I wonder whether or not the eunuchs were taught how to juggle?

[NeverSure]

Turks are not Arabs, dont mix them to each other.

Iranians aren't Arabs either. And...???

[Baerboxer]

The Good ( Muslim ) Wife saying the right things.

Don't forget Mad Merkel wants to fast track Turkish membership of the EU in return for bailing her out of the trouble her mouth got Europe into.

Turning women into sex slaves or baby factories

Replacing secularism with strict Islam

Suppressing free speech

Killing Kurds wherever they are

Easy peasy to see why Mad Mutti Merkel wants him in EU.

He's showing just how easy it is to openly screw the EU these days. And Merkel still thinks she, and she alone, speaks for all Europe.

[nontabury]

Her husband seems to have her completly under his control,clever man. Just like he has just negotiated ( blackmailed ) the EU into agreeing to his terms, otherwise he would have allowed uncontrolled access to the EU by millions of economic migrants.

[StasD]

I want to exam these harem-student women