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Television cameras recorded the incident, and the fear in the eyes of the woman was seen in many Turkish homes, but the perpetrators didn’t even seem to be ashamed of what they were doing. And the police gave them only a 57 lira fine, which is about 30 euros. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morigne.blogspot.com/2008/02/purple-needle.html">For 10 kuruş (5 cents) per piece, you can buy a ‘purple needle’ from the action group, a 7 centimetre long needle with a purple ribbon on it. ‘Nice as an accessory’, says one of the women with a wink, ‘and of course you can prick men away with it.’ They sell about a thousand needles in two hours, only to women.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://morigne.blogspot.com/2008/02/purple-needle.html">Men read the protest signs and listen to the biting speeches of the women as well</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F77192E6-22B3-4035-896E-B8962087E72C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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