Connie Brockway, the award-winning US author of romance novels, believes that the lower a woman’s décolletage is, the less need there is for conversation. That may be the case in her country but it certainly does not apply in Turkey, where the issue of women's cleavage is currently at the heart of a heated social debate.
The extreme sensitivity of Turkish women who consider themselves secular and modern toward the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in power, especially when it comes to issues involving their bodies, was revealed again when a deputy leader of the party recently criticized the way some women dress.