"Turks have much to lose
By Judith A. Klinghoffer (bio)
The secular state of Turkey is booming. Attractive apartment building are sprouting everywhere and women in head scarves and without head scarves are entering the modern work place full of self confidence and hope. So, far the Islamist Erdogan government has walked the secularist and development line in the hope of securing through the EU courts religious rights contrary to the Turkish constitution. The EU court disappointed them by endorsing the country’s headscarf ban. Are they trying to get around the constitutional barrier by electing an Islamist president whose wife wears a head scarf? I must admit that this extraordinary focus on women’s head gear perplexes me but I assume Turks know better."
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