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features her life as a feminist, lawyer and mosque founder. The film qualified for 24 film festivals worldwide and received mostly positive reviews.
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have condemned her project, and she has received death threats. The fatwa encompassed all present and future liberal mosques.
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documentary which contains several interviews with Ateş concerning her life and work. (English with subtitles, 2017)
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when she was six years old, during the period of the 1961-1973 West-German recruitment agreement with Turkey (see:
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