There’s a serious reason these Turkish women are laughing. After Turkey’s deputy prime minister told women they shouldn’t laugh in public, laughter lovers are protesting the giggle ban by posting ...

Who knew that the selfie, a homegrown bit of digital expressionism that regularly stars in American corporate branding misadventures, could make a cutting tool of political resistance in Turkey ...

Women in Turkey have taken to social media to protest comments by the country's Deputy Prime Minister who said, "women shouldn't laugh out loud in public." In response, hundreds of women have been ...

Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had urged women not to laugh in public to ...

Are you a woman? Do you enjoy laughing, and do you sometimes do so in public? While this seems about as innocuous as, well, being in public, according to Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, ...

(RNS) Many Turkish women were doubled over with laughter Tuesday (July 29) after their country's deputy leader said in a speech assailing "moral corruption" that women should not laugh in public and ...

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ISTANBUL, Turkey — “A laugh a day is as good as eating a juicy lamb chop,” goes an old Turkish adage. As Turks struggle with a severe economic crisis, few can afford meat these days, but many are ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had urged women not to ...

Many Turkish women were doubled over with laughter Tuesday after their country's deputy leader said in a speech assailing "moral corruption" that women should not laugh in public and not talk on their ...