Then , they were just sitting in silence and announcing their husband ’ s fault . Also that was a divorcing message to village . Village ’ s women would gather around the woman and take care of . After a woman wore the purple bolero , her husband have to apologize and convince his wife to take off the bolero . If he can ’ t , he couldn ’ t go outside and he would be excluded by Yörük people . He can ’ t get married again .
This tradition not longer alive now but still telling and remembering by elders living in Western Turkey . Yörük women always strong , independent and arbiter in their lifestyle still . Humanity has so much things to learn from Yörük people and the purple bolero . To protect women , to give them freedom , to care them we don ’ t have to use a purple bolero . We have to carry our boleros in our minds . We should be voice of desperate women , give them the freedom of divorcing , like purple bolero did . Like Yörük people did …
| Mor Cepken , Osman ŞAHİN Ti Yazar ( 2020 ), Yörük Kadınının Giydiği Mor Cepkenin Hikayesi