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Turban and türban: ‘Divider between belief and unbelief’. A political history of modern Turkish costume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2005

KLAUS KREISER
KLAUS KREISER
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl für Türkische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur, Otto-Friedrichs-Universität Bamberg, 95047 Bamberg, Germany. E-mail: Klaus.Kreiser@split.uni-bamberg.de
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Abstract

There is probably no other country like Turkey whose inhabitants succumbed so thoroughly to state interventions as to how to cover or uncover their heads and hair. Suppression and enforced alterations characterize the last two centuries. The headscarf has become an important topic for the Turkish press since the 1950s. Today, the headscarf plays a major role in the discussion about the ‘maturity’ of Turkey to become a member of the European Union.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 447 - 458
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2005

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