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How women are treated across the Middle East is a recurring issue. When men tell women what to wear in Iran, or Turkey, the issue has usually not made the headlines. Not any more. In Turkey, a journalist was fired for wearing a low cut dress.
In Iran, it's a whole new debate when a woman wears jeans. See what you think of the quote below. The whole article is found here
Going on to say that she has plans “to issue a call to Iranian women via Facebook to begin dressing in happier colors,” Eshraghi indicated that she wanted to start “a color revolution” in her country. Asked about her views on the way the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s first female spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, who is always seen in a black chador, dresses she said the following:
“I am opposed to the way she dresses and I think that she has to reconsider her dress style. I think that she should dress in light colors. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson is viewed across the world. Clothes are very important.”
Eshraghi also expressed her strong opposition to any police crackdown on women because of the Islamic dress code, saying such measures will have no effect. “As long as this law is in effect, we have to object to it. The entire dress code law must be annulled,” she said, adding her hope that Iran’s new and moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, would do this.
While the interview covered a number of topics, Eshragi’s remarks concerning the way Iranian women dress is what would have attracted the attention of Turkish readers, given the heated debate currently raging in Turkey on women’s dress and especially the matter of “décolletage.”
The cause of that debate, as most people know by now, was Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Hüseyin Çelik and his remarks about the dress of television presenter Gözde Kansu, which revealed some cleavage but by no means was “extreme” in the way Çelik was suggesting. Neither was the dress which got Kansu fired from her channel unique to Turkish TV in terms of revealing cleavage.
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