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“Hand’s off our shorts” say women protesters in Instanbul

by The Bulldog • September 25, 2016

A protest in downtown Istanbul has seen women (and men) dressed in shorts as they protest an attack on a nurse who was riding a City bus in shorts. The issue arises as it has previously in an increasingly strict country which for many decades led the way for freedom for women.

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