Women Journalists Respond PM With A Video

Kadın Gazeteciler Takipte (Women Journalists in Pursuit) Group released a video, responding to PM Erdoğan’s question to a female journalist yesterday: “How come can it be appropriate for an unmarried young man and woman to share an apartment?”

The following video above has been recorded by 30 journalists from Kadın Gazeteciler Takipte Group. Their responses were as follows: 

- Evet. (Yes)

- Bizim için uygundur. (It is OK for us)

- Münasiptir. (Appropriate)

- Pek tabii. (For sure)

“We, as women media workers, reject PM’s interrogative attitude on a female colleague of ours as well as the government’s discriminative women policies."

Journalists in the video: Nilay Vardar, Burcu Karakaş, Elif İnce, Çiçek Tahaoğlu, Semra Pelek, Müjgan Halis, Kumru Başer, Didem Gençtürk, Eser Epözdemir, Elif Ekinci, Ayşe Arman, Beril Eski, Işıl Cinmen, Elif Akgül, Çınar Özer, Ayşegül Kahvecioğlu, Melis Apaydın, Evrim Kepenek, Eylül Akdeniz, Gülfem Karataş, Gülşah İmrek, Gülşah Karadağ, Seçil Türkkan, Olgu Kundakçı, Nihan Kulakoğlu,Sevgim Denizaltı, Çilem Hökelek, Ceren Bayar, Cihan Çelik, Çağla Ağırgöl, Tuğçe Oktay. (NV/ÇT/BM)

* Click here to read the original article in Turkish.