"Turkey: Wrapped and delivered
By Sami Moubayed
DAMASCUS - The constitutional amendment passed recently which allows young girls to wear head scarves at university has hit Turkish society like an earthquake. Turkish women, after all, were given the right to vote, own property, run for political office - and the freedom to choose whether or not to wear a veil - shortly after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, under president Kemal Ataturk."
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