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...Turkey's growing conservative middle class, has meant that more women are petitioning to be allowed to attend university with their heads covered. Because of the ban on headscarves, some have had to resort to wearing wigs or caps to be allowed into university buildings. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two daughters, who cover their hair, avoided the predicament by studying...
...Prime Minister Erdogan, an often blustery and impatient politician, has done little to ease the tension. "If [the headscarf] is indeed a political symbol, does that make it a crime to wear it? Is wearing a symbol a crime?," he said at the start of this debate last month. To secularists, his words confirmed their worst fears - that the headscarf is not an expression of religious piety but of a political movement that ultimately seeks to impose Islamic law. Thousands of secularists, mostly women, took to the streets in the capital of Ankara last week chanting "Turkey will not become...
...Whatever that path is, Turkey, a member of NATO and supposedly NATO's frontline against Iran, doesn't bother even playing the sanctions game. Prime Minister Erdogan said last week that Turkey would not be talked out of going ahead with the natural gas deals it has already signed with Iran. He told reporters in Spain, "Iran and Turkey are two friendly countries, and Turkey will continue to import gas from Iran...
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, proposed the Alliance of Civilizations in 2005 as an alternative to the "clash of civilizations" mind-set, which was first described by political scientist Samuel Huntington and has characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...
...terrorist organization. They're an enemy of Turkey, they're an enemy of Iraq, and they're an enemy of the United States. We have talked about how we can work together to protect ourselves from the PKK." Bush said he had shared intelligence on the PKK with Erdogan, and opened a direct channel between Turkey's number two military official and the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. The President also spoke of cutting off the money flow to the PKK from within Iraq. Not bad for a country that supposedly has unsteady relations with...