Burqa-Clad Attackers in Turkey Beat Pregnant Woman for Wearing “Revealing Clothes”

by FRANCES MARTEL A Turkish newspaper employee was tackled to the floor during an attack by burqa-clad women accusing the six-months pregnant victim of being a “Gulenist” and wearing “revealing” clothes that violate sharia law. The women were accompanied by a man who warned she was one of four other “targets” they would attack. Hazal Ölmez, an employee at the newspaper Evrensel, was walking home from work in Istanbul when three people, two of them women wearing burqas, slammed her to the floor. “Why are you wearing revealing clothes? You are a coup supporter and a Gülenist,” the group reportedly yelled at her. … Continue reading Burqa-Clad Attackers in Turkey Beat Pregnant Woman for Wearing “Revealing Clothes”