NEW CIVIL CODE
TO OPERATE IN TURKEY.
STATUS OF WOMEN.
ON A HIGHER PLANE. -
(Received 3.S a.m.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, February 18. The Turkish Assembly at Angora endorsed -en Woe a new civil code of over 900 articles regulating civil life .on Western lines.
The code deals particularly with the) status of women who acquire divorce y
rights, making them equal with men 1 . The code, which is based on Swiss*
legislation, abolishes polygamy and prohibits the marriage of Moslem" women witfc Christians.—A. and IST.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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