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With the coming change in Turkey's currency, there will be, for the first time in Turkish history, a picture of a woman -- Fatma Aliye, Turkey's first female novel writer -- on a Turkish banknote, and this move has stirred fierce political and historical debates.
Hülya Gülbahar of the Association for Education and Supporting Women Candidates (KA-DER), an association aimed at increasing female representation in politics, said there was no reason to discuss Aliye's political ideas, adding that featuring a woman on a Turkish banknote for the first time in Turkish history is important in and of itself. "One of our slogans that we use frequently is 'women exist.' We are still trying to show the fact that we are here. In this regard, featuring a woman on the banknotes for the first time is something very positive," she says.
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