Çetin Altan, a prominent journalist at the time, who died on Oct. 22, 2015, was a sui generis person. He was a socialist and served as an MP for the communist Turkish Labor Party (TİP). I never forgot his piece in which he questioned circumcision by going through the theory of evolution.

Billions of boys circumcised in a thousand and a half years? Are all right circumcised? It is not possible. Does the cosmos, the universe, the universe make mistakes in such an organism? In the production organ!