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Daughter of Turkish premier fuels debate on headscarf

"Daughter of Turkish premier fuels debate on headscarf

Thomas Seibert

Last Updated: Dec 18, 2010

ISTANBUL // When Sumeyye Erdogan, the youngest daughter of the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took a seat on the visitors' balcony of a meeting room inside Ankara's parliament building to listen to a speech by her father a few weeks ago, no one assumed the appearance was a coincidence or pure family business."

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