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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In Istanbul, Turkey, police stations are becoming day nurseries as officers care for children of mothers attending mandatory adult alphabet schools, sparked by one woman's plea and followed by hundreds more.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan. 7.—Turkey's alphabet schools for adults are turning police stations into day nurseries.
It started like this:
A policeman knocked at a little house in a poor quarter of Istanbul. A woman opened the door.
"How old are you?" the policeman asked abruptly.
"Thirty-five," the woman replied.
"Then put on your hat and come to school."
The woman objected that she had five small children whom she could not leave alone. The policeman was obdurate, the law definite: the woman would be subjected to a heavy fine and even to imprisonment if she did not go to school and learn her ABC's.
Later she appeared at the nearest police station with five urchins in tow.
"You policemen make me leave home and go to school," she said. "and so may Allah strike me blind if you don't look after these children until I get back."
This woman's move gave a cue to hundreds of other school-going mothers and the bewildered policemen could find no way to extricate themselves from their nursemaid roles.
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Primary Location
Istanbul, Turkey
Event Date
Jan. 7.
Outcome
hundreds of other school-going mothers followed the example, leading policemen to take on nursemaid roles for the children.
Event Details
Turkey's alphabet schools for adults are turning police stations into day nurseries. A policeman ordered a 35-year-old woman with five small children to attend school under threat of fine or imprisonment. She left her children at the police station, invoking Allah to make them care for them. This prompted hundreds of other mothers to do the same, leaving policemen bewildered but unable to avoid the role.