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Erdogan's unwelcome intervention in college life

The Turkish prime minister’s legislative attempts to interfere in the private lives of citizens reveal a mindset that places his will above the law.
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Readers of Al-Monitor's Turkey Pulse know by now that the new national agenda of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking legal measures to prevent unmarried male and female students from sharing the same house, as that contradicts his conservative-democrat views. For those who haven’t familiarized themselves with the issue, I suggest they read the articles by Yavuz Baydar and Orhan Kemal Cengiz posted on this website.

Erdogan, in a joint news conference in Helsinki on Nov. 6 with his Finnish host, Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, was asked about the measures against mixed male-female student housing.

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