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March 7, 2008

Turkey’s Headscarf Legislation: One Step Backwards or Two Steps Forward?

by Seyla Benhabib, Dissent, USA - What are secular Turks who oppose these reforms scared of? In the first place, they fear that, literally and metaphorically, the face of Turkey will be changed and that Turkey will become more like Indonesia or Malaysia than the pluralist, western-style, secular Islamic democracy they want it to be.

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At What Price Foreign Policy?

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