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Volleyball players to hold 'shorts' protest on public bus

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet | 8/11/2011 12:00:00 AM |

A group of female volleyball players are set to get on a public bus wearing shorts on Saturday to protest an assault on their colleague, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.

A group of female volleyball players are set to board a public bus wearing shorts on Saturday to protest an assault on their colleague, daily Hürriyet reported on its website.

Nineteen-year-old volleyball player Nurcan İbrahimoğlu said she was insulted and hit by a man on a public bus in July for wearing shorts.

The protesters organized on social media and are going to meet at Kadıköy docks in Istanbul at 2 p.m. on Saturday to cross to Beşiktaş on the European side of the via ferry and board the 42M public bus, the same route on which İbrahimoğlu was assaulted.