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Turkey

Today in things that make us scream incoherently

Women Told To Cover Their Cleavage During Chess Tournament

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:41 pm, March 12th, 2012

The world can be an annoying place for women. It’s a sad state of affairs to be sure, but most of us have come to expect crude comments will be made toward us at least one point (if not countless) in our lives but there’s one place I never expected cat-calls would be a problem – a chess match. Turns out, I was very wrong. The European Women’s Championship in Turkey has installed new rules that ban cleavage. Part of the reason? To limit vulgar comments from those watching the matches. I don’t even… 

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This is What 46,000 Female Turkish Soccer Fans Sound Like

by Susana Polo | 1:17 pm, September 21st, 2011

The Turkish Football Federation has been having a lot of trouble lately with violence at matches, and the most successful strategy they’ve found so far to combat it is to ban adult men from the matches of any team that has been reprimanded for the unruliness of its fans. No really, according to the National Turk, women’s attendance at soccer matches is generally very low, but over 45,000 women attended as the Fenerbahce and Manisaspor teams went head to head.

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