THE NEW TURKEY.
WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 2. A further step in the emancipation of Turkish women has been taken under a new law, which allows them to sit next to.men in tram cars, steamers, and other public conveyances. Hitherto there have been special compartments for women screened off by black curtains. A commission of the National Assembly is considering new family laws. 'It recommends the partial prohibition of polygamy by forbiddinsr a husband to take a second wife without urgent need. | Should he take a second wife the first wife would then be permitted to divorce her husband.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 5
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