Turkish 111 Cultural post
I recently watched a Turkish film Mustang. I enjoyed it greatly because I could understand about 15-20 percent of the words and I also learned a lot about modern Turkish culture. The film is about four sisters who live with their very conservative uncle in a rural area of Turkey. The movie nicely portrayed just how complex being a girl in a Islamic (while at the same time Western) country. The girls did not have to cover, but they were expected to stay virgins until marriage. Many of the sisters were married off young despite their wishes. So before they had to grow up and get married, they savored their last bits of childhood with their sisters. One thing I learned is that they still practice virginity checks in Turkey. Medicine has shown that this is not an accurate way of proving a woman’s virginity. I thought the movie accurately represented the lives of young women in a modern Islamic country.
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