To the market you don’t wear glitters

(photography by Allard de Witte, sharpness of the pictures is being worked on!)There are headscarves and headscarves. Take a look at the market in Ürgüp, a medium size village in central Turkey. 
Decoration 

Habibe Akkaya …

Former prostitutes want to become parliamentarians

There are more independent candidates than ever before in the Turkish parliamentary elections next Sunday. Ayse Tükrükçü (40) and Saliha Ermez (37) are two of them. They were both forced to work as prostitutes but managed to escape.

ISTANBUL – She will never forget the first time she was brought into the brothel she was forced to work in: …

Less moustaches in Turkish parliament?

Women’s rights are a serious issue in the early elections in Turkey on the 22nd of July. The political crisis is focusing on the separation of religion and state, and secular parties fear that the ruling Islamic AK Parti will not respect women’s rights. Women can gain from that. “Parties now want to show how much …

Three generations of women in present-day Turkey

(photography by Hanneke Geerdink)

They might be less modern than women in Istanbul, but still: three generations of women in an average village show how fast life in Turkey has changed. As described by journalist Fréderike Geerdink and her sister Hanneke, photographer.

Leave from the congested bus station in Istanbul and …