?zmir flaunts March 8 'none of your business' campaign before Davuto?lu's visit

Kar??yaka Municipality's March 8 posters, which cap sentences by AKP members with the slogan "none of your business," coincide with Davuto?lu's first post-election visit to ?zmirThe sentence needs to be delivered with one hand firmly on your belly, with the elbow provocatively jutted out, as if it could be used to deliver a blow to the chest of your opponent. The other hand needs to be raised to face level, with palms looking up. With this pose of defiance, rightful indignation and potent anger, you deliver the phrase: "Sana ne?" It is only three syllables, but it is a key expression for Turks, halfway between "none of your business" and "what the hell do you care?" It combines stubbornness and total lack of desire to negotiate what is rightly one's own decision.

"Sana ne" is generally a feminine expression. A 1975 song by Turkey's self-declared superstar Ajda Pekkan, "What Is It To You Or Anyone Else?" coos about a woman's claim that she was born free, will live her life the way she wants, and does not have to give account to anyone. The words are written by Ülkü Aker, a lyricist who has inflicted surprisingly feminist catch-phrases to pop songs of 1970s.

Forty years later, the "sana ne spirit" was revived in a set of March 8 posters by the Kar??yaka district in the western province of ?zmir. The three posters, whose reception by the public has been controversial to say the least, directly aim to criticize the efforts to "blame the victim" when it comes to harassment cases against women.

"I will not bake pastry ... and I will dress as I please. It's none of your business," says one poster. 

"I will laugh as much as I want. It's none of your business," says another. 

"I go out to have fun at night. It's none of...