"Boom in bikini-free holidays as Turkish women cover up
By Nicholas Birch in Izmir
Monday, 7 July 2008
GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN
A conservative Muslim woman wears a hasema, a shroud-like swimsuit, on a beach at Alanya
When Serafettin Ulukent opened his holiday village in a cove on Turkey's Aegean coast in the 1980s, his first guests were German surfers, who enjoyed the brisk winds, cool beers and chilled-out beach parties. But since he stepped in one day to help 100 conservative Turkish Muslims abandoned by a tour operator, there has been no turning back."
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