[ALBSA-Info] The Power of Women???!!!

[Endri Leno]

Sex ban lifted in Turkish village

CNN
ANKARA, Turkey -- A group of husbands have breathed a
collective sigh of relief after their wives ended a
month-long sex boycott. 

The women of Sirt, a small village near Antalya on
Turkey's southern coast, had launched the bedroom
strike in protest at the lack of accessible running
water. 

A break down of the village's 27-year old water system
had meant that the women had been forced to queue for
hours in front of a trickling fountain before carrying
their water home in containers -- a walk of several
miles for some. 

When constant requests to repair the system failed to
produce any improvement, the women decided more
drastic steps were needed -- a refusal of all marital
favours until their spouses fulfilled their plumbing
obligations. 

Now, after some frantic lobbying on the part of Sirt's
male population, the government's Directorate of Rural
Affairs has agreed to provide eight kilometres (five
miles) of piping so that water can be brought to the
village from a nearby source. 

"It (the boycott) worked," a delighted Ayse Sari told
Associated Press. "We got the attention. We were tired
of carrying the water .Those who had donkeys were
lucky." 

The men will have to lay the pipes themselves,
although they believe this is a small price to pay for
a resumption of normal marital relations. 

"We are very happy," village leader Ibrahim Sari said.


Not all the women, however, are ready to end their
protest. While some feel that, with new pipes on the
way, it is time to re-open the bedroom doors, others
insist that only when the pipes have been laid --
something which could take another month -- will they
call off their strike. 

"They won't be able to get into our bedrooms until the
water actually runs through the taps," one village
woman, Fatma Koru, said. "The protest will continue." 

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