The Turkish authorities arrested a café owner, who expelled a veiled woman and forced her to leave the place. He was brought before the Public Prosecutor on charges of incitement to hatred, assault, and insult.
Kuzguncuk’ta bulunan Asude Çay Evi’ne oturmak isteyen çarşaflı kadınlar, işletmeci Murat A.’nın sözlü saldırısına maruz kalmıştı.
Yobaz işletmeci Murat A. gozaltına alındı. pic.twitter.com/fvZaqyhlHt
– Mehmet Ardıç 🇹🇷 (@MehmetArdic_) May 24, 2023
The mayor of Uskudar district, where the café is located, wrote on his Twitter account: “This is completely unacceptable.. We will do what is necessary as a municipality for the region. Those days are over and will not return again,” referring to the days when women were banned from wearing the hijab in Turkey. .
Immediately, the municipality took a decision to revoke the cafe’s license.
Çarşaflı kadınlarımıza hakaret ederek kovan Kuzguncuk’taki Asude Çay Evi’nin işletme ruhsatı, Üsküdar Belediyesi ekiplerince iptal edildi.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
pic.twitter.com/VSNDKKyeeT– ARVEN (@arven_ar) May 25, 2023
A video clip spread on social media shows the owner of the place insulting a veiled woman at a table next to the café, and asking her to leave the place.
The Yeni Safak newspaper quoted the woman as saying that she suffered from a ban on the hijab when she was young, and that she was unable to continue her school life, and that people like the owner of this cafe look at her in the street as if they are telling her that there is no place for her here.
Üsküdar Belediyesi, çarşaflı hanımlara sözlü tacizin gerçekleştiği Asude Çay Evi’nin tüm izin ve alan kullanım ruhsatlarını iptal etti. ✅
– Erdem Özveren (@ErdemOzveren571) May 25, 2023
The owner of the café (Murad) replied, according to Turkish websites, that he believed that she was a beggar, and that his mother wore a hijab.
In the same context, the residents of the area responded to the behavior of the owner of the place by throwing piles of garbage at the entrance of the café, as an expression of their anger, while one of the women wrote on a wall next to the café the phrase: “The more you ignore us, the more we will become.”
🔴 Üsküdar’da çarşaflı kadınlara sözlü saldırıda bulunarak mekandan kovan Asude Çay Evi’nin duvarına tesettürlü bi genç tarafından “Biz yok sayacaksınız biz daha çok var olacağız” yazıldı. pic.twitter.com/yr65ulwS6B
– Daily Islamist (@dailyislamist) May 25, 2023
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