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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Turkey: Headscarved Graduate Students Lead Libertarian Movement

"TURKEY: HEADSCARVED GRADUATE STUDENTS LEAD LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT
Nicholas Birch 3/12/08

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Two Turkish headscarf-wearing graduate students, Neslihan Akbulut and Hilal Kaplan, constitute an unlikely pair of revolutionaries. Against the backdrop of the country’s divisive debate over the lifting of a university headscarf ban, the duo is pressing ahead with a petition drive that seeks a radical expansion of civil rights."

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