Monday, May 22, 2006

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"SECOND TAKE - The Gaurdian
The Gaurdian

TURKS got a nasty jolt this week when an Islamist gunman shot at five judges in Ankara, killing one of them. The motive was apparently that they had upheld a judgment banning the headscarf for women. Such is the raw emotive power of this issue in the world’s first Muslim democracy that the attack has been billed in the Turkish media as the country’s equivalent of 9/11 — a brutal assault on the secular and democratic foundations of the republic."

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