"The Battle for Turkey's Future
Ann Althouse has the story of the trial and eventual acquittal of Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, a scientist whose history of the head scarf landed her in a Turkish court, charged with 'insulting the people.'
Recent events in Turkey indicate that the country has a decided desire to, at the least, be acceptable to western society. No doubt part of the motivation is entry into the EU, a Turkish project for about twenty-five years now."
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