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This should be interesting, women have voted in Turkey since 1930, unlike Afghanistan where violent fundamentalists took over, why would women there vote themselves back into servitude? The folks I met in Istanbul considered themselves European, were proud of their secular state, and looked down on what they called "tent Islam".
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