NEW LAWS
CHANGING TURKEY.
SWISS CODE ADOPTED STATUTE OF KHM.YL UNVEILED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—CO ’YR'GHT Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct, 4* Tllue modernisation of Turkey is evidenced by the unveiling of a statute of Mustapha, Kemal m the Golden Horn Park, despite the Koran's prohibition of portraits and sehuptures representing human and other creatures. '
The Sjwias Oivil ciode supercedes Mohammedan law to-day, through which no Turk, after midnight last night, may divorce has old wives and marry new ones. Divorces and marriages, even polygamous, under the old law are still valid, but the new code confers equal divorce rights and punishes bigamy. It also substitutes 18 for 14 as the woman’s marriageable age.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 October 1926, Page 5
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114NEW LAWS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 October 1926, Page 5
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