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Dr. Xanthe Ackerman is a journalist with the Fuller Project for International Reporting, a bureau reporting on women in foreign policy. Dr. Ackerman has been a scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and at Brookings’ Center for Education, and she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is founder of Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa, an international nonprofit supporting secondary school education. Her writing appears in a range of publications including Time, the Guardian, VICE News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Beast, Al-Fanar Media, and others. Follow her on Twitter: @XAckerman
Tens of thousands of women, angry at what they say is the government’s latest step to “Islamify” Turkey, recently signed a petition against the rise of religious marriages in lieu of civil unions.
