GARDEN OF A SULTAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 9

GARDEN OF A SULTAN

SETTING FOR CONFERENCE

A sympathetic attitude on the part of the Turkish Government forecasts success for the congress of the International Alliance of Women for Sufrage and Equal Citizenship, to be held in April at Istanbul, states the "Sydney Morning Herald."

_ Not only has Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the President of the Republic, promised to welcome the delegates officially, but the Government has also made available for the congress the xidloz Kiosk, a pavilion in the grounds of the palace of the former Sultan Abdul Hamid. The secretariat of congress will be housed at the Hotel Tokatlian, where the president of the ~uance and chairman of ] congress (Mrs. Margery Corbett-Ashby) and other: delegates will stay. •It is expected that over 40 countries will be represented at the congress. " MEETING OP EAST AND WEST. This meeting of Eastern and Western women should be an extremely interesting one. The congress is an impressive evidence of the progress of the emancipation of Turkish women, who are now free to enter many professions. ~ . Today in Angore and Istanbul there are 20 women university professors, 15 women Magistrates, 12 lawyers, 8 doctors, and 5 chemists. Over 1500 women are employed in the Public Service and in banks, and more than 20,000 women and girls are working in factories. The same progressive spirit is'rio- ™ on the stage> where formerly no Mussulman woman was allowed to Pftform. . Now all the actresses of the Turkish National Theatre are Turkish gu-ls.