Turkey
KABOBforum: Hijabzilla In The Presidential Palace
A recent KABOBpost about the election of Turkey’s new president discusses how the Turkish military and other fundamentalist secularists are considering the new president’s wife wearing the Hijab into the presidential palace as an attack on secularism; thus, the new first lady is considering alternate designs for her hijab. Here are some options. Warning, images [...]
Gul Elected Turkey’s President: Who’s Afraid Of The Big Ol’ Hijab?
Apparently the mighty Turkish military is. After a third round of voting in the Turkish parliament, AK Party presidential nominee Abdullah Gul was elected as Turkey’s president today. Gul, a self-made politician and businessman, comes from an Islamist political backgrounds, in a country where the fierce fight between the vanguards of the Islamists and secularists [...]
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