Women in Turkey: Caught between Tradition and Modernity

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2011-01-01

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Beşpınar Akgüner, Fatma Umut

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Women in the Middle East and North Africa Agents of Change

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F. U. Beşpınar Akgüner, Women in Turkey: Caught between Tradition and Modernity. 2011, p. 187.