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October 13, 2008

Featuring a Woman on Turkish Currency Leads to Debate

by Ayse Karabat, Today's Zaman, Turkey - 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.

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