Turkey's Press Advertisement Agency publishes misogynistic dictionaries
Turkey's Press Advertisement Agency (BİK) distributed dictionaries containing misogynistic, sexist and insulting vocabulary to media organizations. The documents also included insult words that the Turkish Language Association (TDK) removed from their dictionaries for being sexist.
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Turkey's Press Advertisement Agency (BİK) distributed dictionaries containing misogynistic, sexist and insulting expressions about women to press organizations, daily BirGün reported on Sept.17.
The Turkish Nouns Dictionary, Turkish Verbs Dictionary and a compound nouns dictionary distributed by BİK involved words that the Turkish Language Institution (TDK) had excluded from its dictionaries upon court decisions deeming the vocabulary insulting.
The dictionaries included insults like "loose," "bimbo" and "slag" were listed as vocabulary to describe "women who are easily attainable," "women who trollop on the streets instead of sitting at home" and "women who intice."
Meanwhile, womanhood was used in insult words like "twat-mouthed" ("Karı Ağızlı" in Turkish) to describe "men who gossip," while the Turkish word for "man" was defined as "trustworthy," and "male" was defined as "brave."
The author of the book, Dr. Mehmet Gedizli has been a lecturer of Turkish language at the western Sakarya University for nearly 20 years.