Turkey laughs off its Deputy Prime Minister

Istanbul: Turkey’s deputy leader on Tuesday said he doesn't like it when women laugh in public and it has caused a lot of hilarity.

 

Attacking “moral corruption,” Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said women were spending too much time talking on the phone, and said they shouldn’t laugh in public. Women “will not laugh in public. She will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness,” he said.

 

Almost immediately, hundreds of Turkish women took to social media to share photos of themselves laughing in public, using hashtags like #direnkahkaha, (resist, laugh).” the Independent reported.

Melda Onur, an Istanbul MP, wrote on Twitter: “We would have left Arinç to his fantasies and wouldn't even have laughed about it, but while so many murders are being committed he makes [women] a target.”