[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.


As quoted in Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography (2011) by M. Sükrü Hanioglu, p. 38

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Quotes

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.