Müge Öz, President of the Women's Committee of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSİAD), made a written statement regarding the discriminatory expressions voiced by a journalist on a TV channel against our headscarved teachers in connection with the Distance Education practice launched by our Ministry of National Education.
In her statement, Öz noted the following:
In a period when social peace and tranquility have been secured as never before, not a day passes without seeds of discord and discrimination being sown among brothers and sisters!
While the Distance Education practice launched by our Ministry of National Education ought to be appreciated and supported, unfortunately comments are being made about the dress of our teachers, and our headscarved teachers ,are being turned into a subject of polemic in a manner contrary to democracy and human rights.
We have full confidence that the discourse of this moss-covered mentality will find no echo in the eyes of our nation today, just as it did not in the past. As MÜSİAD Women, in this period in which we as a nation are passing through a critical time and need unity and solidarity more than ever, we importantly underline that no credit should be given to such broadcasts. On this occasion, we once again declare that with these expressions of yours containing hatred and discrimination you can never harm our brotherhood, our unity and our consciousness of being a nation.