"Turkey facing identity crisis
Modernization brings questions in its wake
ISTANBUL: For every stereotype of a Muslim country, Turkey has a fact to break it.
It has Islamic feminists (a few), and Israeli tourists (many). Reality dating shows have had the highest ratings on television and Islamic fashion sashays down Turkish runways.
For decades in Turkey, the competing forces of the religious and secular, Christian and Muslim, east and west, were muted, as authorities scrubbed the country of differences while they built a modern state. But Turkey has become more democratic in recent years and those forces have burst into full view, creating a sort of modern-day identity crisis."
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