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OLD OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Turkey

NEW SECULAR REPUBLIC : Before and After

First Turkish Prime Minister MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK and wife LATIFE (left) - Current Turkish Prime Minister RECEPT TAYYIP ERODOGAN and wife EMINE (right)HT)

by Pelin Turgut (Istanbul)
THE INDEPENDENT Saturday 1 July 2006

Eighty years ago, a best-selling new biography reveals, Turkey's first lady, Latife Ataturk, wife of Ataturk for a brief two and one-half years only - before being exiled into oblivion, helped liberate her country women by urging them to cast off their veils. At a time when women were veiled from head to toe, Latife lobbied for laws that gave Turkish women rights few European countries had in the 1920s - including voting. But as her key role in the secularization of Turkey comes to light, the headscarf is once again stirring passionate debate in Anatolia by the wife of the present Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erodogan, Emine, who is publicly seen deliberately wearing a headscarf from the past. (Revealed in a recent book by Turkish journalist-author Ipek Calislar)

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Recent Hijab protest in London 2006

Incidentally in contrast to the Hijab protest (above) may we suggest model
Kate Moss and legal advocate Shabnam Mughal (below) as examples of
working women (extremists) practicing their respective jobs?

Mario Sorrent/Corinne Day photo Grunge: Kate Moss in ad shoot in 1993 era of 'heroin chic' in the fashion world.

Photo David Burges 2006 Advocate Shabnam Mughal moved from court for wearing Hijab

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