"Turkey's New Dress Code and the Fashion of Islam
By Tracy Dove, Ph.D
Editor, The Russia News Service
February 11, 2008
Respect for conservative religious values is essential, and the wealthy urban elite are leading the crusade for more piety. No, these aren't paroles taken from the secret agenda of the Mitt Romney campaign, and its not an election spot for Huckabee, although it sounds like it; Turkey is moving on a steady path toward prosperity, middle class independence and- ironically- greater religious piety. This week the Turkish parliament voted overwhelmingly to lift the ban on the Muslim headscarf in universities, and the decision has polarized the country into two opposite groups: the Kemalists on the secular side and the growing force of middle class Islamism on the other."
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