Quoting vineyards:

Religion is madness
It turns happiness into sadness
prospects into restrictions
musts into must nots
your sweetheart becomes your enemy
you'd kill your father if you must
ask yourselves if God did tell you all these
No, God must be wiser than that.

Quoting aslı:

Marriage is a sum of cultures. I think different cultures should not argue about marriage. In Turkey most girls like me told before marriage 'there wont be any return from your husband' s house to here'. This is just a tradition, anyone can divorce anytime. But still society will keeps chatting about the reasons of your becoming divorced widow. Everything you do after that will be shame for your family even if they well educated and supportive. For all that reasons marrige bases are quite different. Families are more involved our marriages. So, we can not see marriage like other cultures do. Not that we dont want to, it is about how we raised, how we treated.

Quoting christine:

+ 1 Why does society never say poor girl,she had a bad husband.

Quoting aslı:

mltm my family is living in istanbul over 300 years on both side. My father is an electrical engineer, my mother is a teacher like me and my sister is medical doctor. I think we can count on as educated family on Turkey's conditions.

Quoting mltm:

It's quite strange because as far as I know in Istanbul traditions there's not such a thing to tie a red color around the belt of the bride.

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting armegon:

Simply because, it is world of men especially in east, traditionalists(peculiarly religious scholars) have been brainwashing the society to benefit from women with their supersitions for centuries. You know Kemal Atatürk struggled against these ignorances, supersitions in Türkiye but you cant elude from these easily because tradition with full of silly supersitions withstand to deep-roots.