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What women need is to be able to be equivalent, rather than equal. Because equality turns the victim into an oppressor and vice versa.

— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

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A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.

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