"Traditional head scarf unveils new rifts in Turkey
MARK MACKINNON
From Monday's Globe and Mail
July 20, 2008 at 8:54 PM EDT
ISTANBUL — Fatma Benli doesn't like the word “symbol.” But somewhere in the folds of the flowered green and brown scarf wrapped tightly around her oval face – and the similar coverings worn by millions of Turkish women – is the crux of their country's spreading political crisis, with its duelling allegations of coup plots and coming Islamic caliphates."
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