Firefighters of Antalya

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by nakah-edzog

36 comments
  1. What hits me first in this picture is, that they all look friendly and smile. If those would be men, they would probably try to look all hardy, especially while holding those tools.

  2. Hiring female firefighters is like using a spoon to dig a trench—earnest effort, but hardly the right tool for the job.

  3. Firefighters of Antalya hired group of women for staged photoshoot

  4. Men are on average stronger, I hope these women had to pass the same tests, I don’t want to die in a fire in the name of equality or something

  5. I hope they’re not the ones to lift anyone out of a burning building.

  6. Turkey is not europe and Erdogan is a dictator dreaming of ressurrecting the ottoman empire and is not a european.

  7. Good luck if they need to lift an unconscious person weighting 100+kgs
    I hope their team coordinator actually organize mixed shifts with at least 2 men per shift.

    Source: I was part of an EMT team.

  8. Ight imma buy a house in Antalya just to set it on fire

  9. How do they fight fires with a chainsaw? Chop it out?

    ^/s

  10. Stop spamming European forums from Asia… This post belongs to r/asia

  11. Turkish man here, I could not be more proud to see our women all empowered and in charge, be it firefighters, Fighter Jet pilots, Paramedics, Police, even Special Forces in the army.

    Looking at the state of the Middle East, even some developed countries in the west, it’s crucial that us men stand with women all over the world and as allies support them to be our equals at the very least and our betters if the merit shows that’s their place.

    Religious extremists, fundamentalists and anyone still holding on to any backwards doctrines; Turkey will never give up secularity and progress, go touch grass if you can’t deal with the fact.

    Ataturk’s republic outlasted U.S.S.R and Yugoslavia and even though it went through painful process, democracy is still standing with AKP conceded defeat at local elections.

    I’ll just drop this here;

    “Turkish women; you are worthy to rise to the skies on our shoulders.

    Today, the discipline to be taught by mothers to their children is not as simple as it used to be in the past. For today’s mothers, to bring up sons and daughters that have the necessary virtues as active members of today’s life, depends on
    having many high attributes in them as mothers. For that reason, our women must be more enlightened, more intellectual and more learned than men if they really want to be the mother of the nation.

    A society is comprised of two genders: male and female. Is it possible to lift a huge block up if you concentrate on one side of it and leave the other side completely unattended? Is it possible that a part of a society reach the skies while the other part is tied to the ground with chains?

    Women of no nation in the world can say, “We have worked harder than Turkish women, we have served as much as Turkish women to lead our
    nations to victory and independence.”

    Actually, our women have always been side to side with our men in social life.

    Not only today, but for a long time past, our women have worked and struggled no less than men on the fronts, in farming, and in making a living.

    Maybe it was our men who fought against the enemy with their bayonets, but it was our women who kept the narrow resources available for the army composed of men. It always has been, and it still is our women who make it possible for our country to go on.

    No one can deny that it was always our women who made it possible for our nation to keep up its presence during this and previous wars. It has always been them, the divine women of Anatolia who not only plowed and sowed fields, gathered firewood from the woods and mountains, took the
    crop to the market and cashed it, provided bread and butter to their families, but also carried ammunition to the front in oxcarts or on their shoulders under severe conditions.

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1923.

  12. I’m for gender equality. We should see more naked firefighter calendars!

  13. Not really the European part of Turkey so don’t know what this is doing here.

  14. Hopefully they’re better than ours. First time out they almost burnt down Banff. There wasn’t even a fire.

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