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TURKEY - DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAYS
WOMEN SHOULD NOT LAUGH ALOUD IN PUBLIC, CLAIMS MORAL CORRUPTION IN TURKEY
August
2, 2014 - Women should not laugh out loud in public, Deputy Prime Minister
Bülent Arınç has said while complaining about “moral corruption” in
Turkey.
DHA Photo
Speaking during an Eid el-Fitr meeting on July 28, Arınç described his
ideal of the chaste man or woman, saying they should both have a sense of shame
and honor.
“Chastity is so important. It is not only a name. It is an ornament for both
women and men. [She] will have chasteness. Man will have it, too. He will not
be a womanizer. He will be bound to his wife. He will love his children. [The
woman] will know what is haram and not haram. She will not laugh in public. She
will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness,”
Arınç said, adding that people had abandoned their values today.
People needs to discover the Quran once again, Arınç said, adding that
there had been a regression on moral grounds.
“Where are our girls, who slightly blush, lower their heads and turn their eyes
away when we look at their face, becoming the symbol of chastity?” he said.
He said some TV series geared toward young people had because teenagers to grow
up only as “sex addicts,” accusing those who abuse the excitement of youths
with publications on TV, the web, newspapers, or in educational places,
especially in universities.
Arınç also complained about high consumption, referring to the number of
cars and mobile phones that individuals have.
Targeting women once more, Arınç said women talk about unnecessary things
on the phone.
“Women give each other meal recipes while speaking on the mobile phone. ‘What
else is going on?’ ‘What happened to Ayşe’s daughter?’ ‘When is the
wedding?’ Talk about this face to face,” he said.
People should not use their personal cars unnecessarily, he also said, adding
that even if the Nile River was full of oil, there would not be enough fuel to
power cars.
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, who is running for the presidency against
Arınç’s boss, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, commented on
Arınç’s statement via Twitter, saying Turkey needed women to laugh, as
well as to hear everybody’s happy laughter more than anything.
"If a man can think only this way in a bayram day, then this mentality has
a problem. [Prime Minister Recep] Tayyip Erdoğan has the same mentality
problem," the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chair
Burhan Şenatalar said July 29.
"Arınç claims that Turkey is in moral collapse, but his own party has
been governing the country for the past 12 years," said Çetin Elmas, the
chief advisor of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) chair Devlet Bahçeli.
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy parliamentary head Pervin Buldan has
even joined the social media protest. "From now on, we will respond to all
statements by Arınç by laughing," Buldan tweeted.