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©TIE
2004-2008
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This photo is
not from Turkey, it's from
another country: two women swathed
in black sitting on bare dust and
pebbles in the blazing sun at a country
market.
Heaven knows what that must be like.
In 1925, Kemal
Atatürk pushed
reform laws through Turkey's Grand
National Assembly outlawing
the veil and the fez.
European-style dress was encouraged
in their place.
Although you may see a few women in
black çarsaf in Turkey,
most observant Muslim women
wear tesettür: a light
draping overcoat and colorful headscarf.
No veil.
Many Turkish women who consider themselves
good Muslims do not follow any traditional
concept of modest dress, but rather
dress tastefully in European fashions,
perhaps believing that modesty is as
modesty does.
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A picture is
worth a thousand words...
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