THE MODERNISED TURKEY
KEMAL GETS A STATUE IN SHE Of THE KGIAH Mi ORftSTfC REFORM 07 THE MARRIAGE LAW Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, October 4. The modernisation of Turkey is evidenced by the unveilling of a statue of Kemal in Golden Horn Park, despite the Koran's prohibition of portraits and sculptures representing human and other creatures. The Swiss civil code supersedes the Mohammedan law today, and therefore no Turk after midnight last night may divorce his old wives and marry-new ones. Divorces and marriages, even polygamous ones, under the old law are still valid, but. the new code confers equal divorce rights and punishes bigamy and substitutes elghtenn for fou rteen as a woman' marriagable ages.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 2, 5 October 1926, Page 5
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