"Turkish distractions
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 30/04/2007
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
A row over whether the Turkish President's wife should wear a headscarf has brought millions of demonstrators on to the streets, agitated the army and reheated the familiar argument about Turkish secularism. In the eyes of many foreign critics, this is an argument that Turkey cannot win. If Ankara tolerates the outward symbols of religious devotion, it is sliding into Islamism; if it bans them, it is a dictatorship."
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