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...friends have been chased by the turkey.” “The turkey can be pretty aggressive,” she said. Longo, who opposes the presence of the turkey on campus, joined a Facebook group called “HBS Students FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE TURKEY?? after being prompted by one of the turkey??s victims. Kristian M. Fredrickson, another second-year MBA student, sees the turkey in a different light. “The first time I saw the turkey was during my second week of school...
...secularist Turks voted to roll back a ban on Islamic headscarves in state universities. Here, gender equity should prevail over democracy; the prohibition had served the commendable purpose of keeping a pattern of patriarchal exclusion out of educational institutions. The battle over the ban, still ongoing, is testament to Turkey??s schizoid situation between the fundamentalist tide roaring to its south and the atheistic, successful European Union it desperately hopes to join...
...inherent racism he saw in the Mercator projection, which disproportionally represents the Northern hemisphere with respect to the Southern one. The segregation of continents is more than a physical issue; it creates ideological and cultural divides so great that linking the two continents now seems to be Turkey??s biggest accomplishment...
...Turkey??s government really were threatened by women wearing headscarves in universities, a ban on that act would constitute the worst kind of censorship. A government that quashes opposition to itself is a tyrannical government. A free society must tolerate the speech of those who would destroy it, just as a secular society must allow the expression of religious beliefs opposed...
...headscarf has become a political symbol of religious conservatism. The issue here is not simply the rights of individual women to don the headscarf in the classroom, but what impact the repeal will have on women’s rights and secularism in the broader context of Turkey??s political climate. Despite the seemingly heavy-handed nature of Kemalist secularism, it is borne of a real danger posed by religious conservatism to the freedom and autonomy of women in Turkey. Proponents of the repeal claim that the ban has cruelly forced women to choose between their faith...