Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkey's president, spoke in a speech to mark International Women's Day at an official event in Ankara and described the harem of the Ottoman era as an "educational establishment that prepared women for life". At Istanbul's Topkapi Palace had a harem the sultans who ruled the Ottoman empire. There lived the wives of the sultans and the female family members and concubines. Male staff were eunuchs.
Concubines kept in the harem receive training and were well fed: they were not all used for sex, but they weren't free to leave the palace if they wanted.
Some Turks criticise the first lady's comments on social media, specially on Twitter:
@GaziCaglar tweeted "Receiving education in harem doesn't make it a school. This is nonsense. There would have been about 400 concubines in the sultan's harem."
@anlam75 asked: "If the Ottoman was a scholarly institution then why were the men who worked there castrated?"
@kizmonot tweeted: "Those who mention harem do not send their daughters to anything less than American universities."
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PERSONAL COMMENT:
I didn't know this institution called harem, but then it is likd thd tweeters say, I'm totally against this "education" method and agree with the opinion of most of the tweets that criticise it. I don't understand the first lady of Turkey, how can she aprove this? It's male chauvinist.
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