WOMEN OF TURKEY
PR KAHIII Xl 1 IX MOSVI'KS TUB LA XI > ()!-’ SLIM'BISKS The new Turkey presents an almost ceaseless stream of picturesque surprises, writes the diplomatic correspondent of a London paper. The ( i nstant inople branch of the Turkish Women’s Inion recently addressed to the representative of the Director for Religious Institutions in the vilayet a request that members of the union be permitted to preach what- they described as “civic sermons'’ in the I oral mosques. The official ill question invited the ladies to explain flic, exact character of their proposed ad. dresses, printing out that mosques could not he used for purely secular addresses, while tiie Hraud Mufti of ('i,list,mit inople was the proper authority to approach in the matter of religious addresses. \\ hereupon the lady president of the assoeiat ion in question replied in the following I onus : "My sisters are anxious to follow the (loviTiniiont in il s secularist path. Preaching does not. consist merely in the exposition of Hungs known to everyone. We all know how to carry out ceremonial washing and to fast. But mir object is other than this. Il is to extirpate from the minds of our sisters the prejudices with which they were formerly inoculated by ignorant itndl'as. . . .We are tol dtlmt there exists no tradition m support of our claim. Well. then, we mean to create this secularist tradition for the benefit of the people."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 January 1926, Page 3
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