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Bright Sun

 

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 stylishly in European fashions.