"Turkey polarized over prospect of veiled first lady
Burak Akinci
AFP
April 25, 2007
CANDIDATE: Turkey's FM Abdullah Gul poses with his wife Hayrunisa Gul in Davos. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan April 24 confirmed Gul as their ruling AKP's candidate in a May presidential election.
(REUTERS)
ANKARA -- The prospect of a veiled first lady Wednesday rekindled a highly divisive debate in Turkey over the Islamic headscarf, hated by secularists as a symbol of political Islam and the oppression of women."
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