Word: kavakci
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...education system of any reference to Islam, and paraded his wife bareheaded through rural parts of the country. His successors outlawed head scarves from public buildings, requiring conservative young women, including the daughters of the current Prime Minister, to go abroad to study. When a woman named Merve Kavakci won election to the Turkish parliament wearing a head scarf in 1999, she was booed out of the Assembly and subsequently stripped of her citizenship. Now the country's conservative Muslim Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to lift the head-scarf ban, and millions of conservative Turks would be pleased...
Former Turkish Parliament member Merve S. Kavakci said she agreed, condemning negative portrayals of Muslims in the media and government...
...Kavakci said Muslims now have the opportunity teach others about the “common values that bind us to humanity...
According to Magda Kowalczykowski '03, Kavakci "may have glossed over some exceptions in the views she presented...
Deema B. Arafah '03 said to be overly skeptical of Kavakci and to "reject the humanity of her experiences because of politics" is "unfair...