TURKISH WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1922, Page 5

TURKISH WOMEN.

A SHEIK’S TIRADE. AGAINST FRATERNISING WITH FOREIGNERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Jan. 14, 5.5 p.m. I London, Jan. 13. The Times’ 1 correspondent at Constantinople states that Mu-sta-pha Fesmy, Sheik-ul-Islam at Angora, has issued a manifesto condemning the licentious behaviour of the minority of Turkish ladies in Constantinople. The manifesto says these so-called Moslems, intead of aiding Augora, at least with their hearts, in the battle against the invader amid frost and snow, disregard all the laws of decency and honor, and meet male foreigners unveiled at receptions and afternoon teas, sit at tables with them, and, horrible to relate, even dance with them in .private houses. “Such conduct,” the Sheik-ul-Islam declares, “will obviously result in foreign influences, but chastisement awaits them in this world as well as in the next.”

The manifesto seeks to break some harmless society butterflies on th& wheel, but the correspondent says it is doubtful if it will have any effect, except to annoy many Turkish families in Constantinople, and possibly deprive Turkey of some of her best propagandists there. The young educated Turkish women are far cleverer than the men as propagandists. —Times Service.