8/31/11

Turkish Volleyball Player Verbally And Physically Attacked in Istanbul Bus‏ for Wearing Shorts

Nineteen-year-old Turkish volleyball player, Nurcan İbrahimoğlu, has confessed that she was verbally and physically attacked in Istanbul last July 28th inside a bus because she was wearing basketball shorts. Following this, on 13th of August, A group of female volleyball players are set to board a public bus wearing shorts to protest an assault on their colleague, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.
The protesters organized on social media and are going to meet at Kadıköy docks in Istanbul at 2 p.m. on Saturday to cross to Beşiktaş on the European side of the via ferry and board the 42M public bus, the same route on which İbrahimoğlu was assaulted.
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