Female soccer players shoot down Turkish taboos

In much of Turkey, playing soccer is something girls simply dont do. But some women players are challenging the norms and taking to the field.
As Worldfocus correspondent Gizem Yarbil and producer Bryan Myers discovered, part of the resistance to women playing soccer is religious and part of it is cultural.

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News & Politics

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• Bryan Myers
• gender
• Gizem Yarbil
• soccer
• sport
• Turkey
• women
• Women in Islam
• Worldfocus
• World Focus

[3choBlaster]

Gizem you're a dumb fucking whore, there are MANY women in Turkey playing football, tennis, etc every sport they wan't. WTF is your problem with EVERY report you do on Turkey you're desperatly trying to make Turkey look bad. You're a really sick person and I wonder what your beef with Turkey is.

Fucking whore, I HOPE they exile you for working at Al jazeera and being a dumb fucking retard in general.

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ah god... turkish women r opressed and islam is opression... ok we got it. from which western plastic democracy is this documentary?

[1tigerblood]

sure woman in turkey cant play too.  why not??