Turkish women told not to laugh, so guess what they did

Reacting to the deputy PM’s statement that women should not laugh in public to ‘protect moral values’, hundreds join a most joyful protest online.

Thousands of Turkish women have been posting photos of themselves laughing on the social media platform Twitter under the hashtags #kahkaha (laughter) and #direnkahkaha (resist laughter) since July 30 to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had urged women not to laugh in public to “protect moral values”.