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Challenging Traditional Culture Seminar Has Been Held

Saturday, March 13, 2020 - Read: 1990
Challenging Traditional Culture Seminar Has Been Held

 "Challenging Traditional Culture Seminar" took place on Thursday, March 13th at Taksim Campus of Beykent University. Previous MP - Ambassador Ertuğrul KUMCUOĞLU was the guest speaker at the seminar, moderated by Marmara Group Social and Strategic Research Foundation's Head of EU and Human Rights Platform, Müjgan SUVER.

Ertuğrul KUMCUOĞLU who claims that politics cannot be done by denying traditions, throughout the seminars emphasized that women are a big part of production in Turkish economy, especially in times when the economy is predominantly based on agriculture. He also claimed that they are not only obliged to take care of children as now, and said, “My mother used to milk cows, collect cotton and run a big farm. Does it mean that my mother only raising a child?"

Despite the number of participants who were far below the expected due to the danger of the coronavirus, which has been ravaging the world recently, Ertuğrul KUMCUOĞLU said, "If there was one person here today, I would have talked." then he thanked Mr. Müjgan SUVER.