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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 169 no. 18 (May 2007), page 018.
Topik: Presidential Nominee; Head Scarf; Turkey; Secular; Abdullah Gul; Islamic Nation;

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As secular Turks protest a presidential nominee whose wife wears a head scarf, a clash over the separation of mosque and state reaches crisis point. Usually made of silk or cotton, the type of head scarf favored by strict Muslim women in Turkey, typically measures just 1 m square. Yet that small quadrangle of cloth may bring down the nation's government and push its democratic institutions and secular tradition to crisis. On April 29, nearly a million Turkish citizens flooded Istanbul's trendiest downtown district in one of the largest demonstrations the ancient capital has ever seen. The cause of their ire: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a politician with an Islamist past, to be the next President. More precisely, their outrage focused on a singular potent piece of symbolism: Gul's wife wears a head scarf. "If it was up to the government we'd all be in head scarves!" shouted Ezgi Kilic, 21, a member of Bosphorus University's college basketball team, who turned out to demonstrate wearing navy and white tracksuit pants and Ray Bans. Her team mate, Burcu Asli waving a small Turkish flag, agreed, "We don't have a problem with head scarves But it's nor right that the President's wife should wear one. This isn't political. We just don't want to see Turkey becoming another Iran.

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