Article - TURKEY - First Mate, Second Mate

TURKEY - First Mate, Second Mate
Nov 24, 1958
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Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing back the good old days of male supremacy. Deputy Lermioglu hastily explained that he had personally cleared the bill with his own wife of 32 years. Said Mrs. Lermioglu calmly: "I am sure of my husband."

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