ISTANBUL CONFERENCE.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN. NEW ZEALANDER A DELEGATE. A very interesting report of part of the International Conference of Women which lias just taken place at Istanbul is sent by Miss Amy Kane, who ie a delegate from the branch of the International Suffrage Society in Wellington. Miss Kane speaks of the magnificence of the Yildiz Palace where the conference was held.
"It was wonderful when Madame Talil Bekir (president of the Union of Turkish Women) stood up before that great assemblage of hundreds of women and made a delightful speech of welcome, and one realised that only 11 years ago the Turkish women were veiled," said the writer. "But of course one realises that the idea of education and emancipation had been filtering in for years previously. This is distinctly an Eastern meeting, there are women from Egypt, Greece, Syria, Palestine (both Jewish and Arab women), Iraq and India, as well as Turkey, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and some of the Eaetern European countries as well.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 130, 4 June 1935, Page 10
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