Another journalistic intervention. Milliyet's "türban" survey...
Milliyet survey here.
Defenses by Sedat Ergin and Ismet Berkan and counter attacks by Fehmi Koru and Emre Aköz and Ahmet Hakan, a man in between. Meanwhile, Taha Akyol prefers to be indifferent.
Headscarf debates seem to last forever
A “türban survey” published in daily Milliyet, which claims the number of women who cover their heads has quadrupled under Justice and Development Party (AK Party) rule, has occupied newspaper columns throughout the week, bringing up many other debates along with it....The ‘türban survey’ controversy continues
The repercussions of a survey published in daily Milliyet continue to echo throughout the Turkish media. The report on the survey claimed that the number of women wearing the Islamic headscarf had quadrupled in the past four years under the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government.
Clash of surveys
A survey published by the Milliyet daily and conducted by Konda about the number of headscarved women in Turkey has rekindled the country’s never-ending headscarf debate.Turkey: Headscarf Ruling Denies Women Education and Career (Human Rights Watch, 16-11-2005)
Surveys needed on more than just headscarves
Almost everyone in the country is now discussing the headscarf issue thanks to a survey published by daily Milliyet. The paper unfortunately triggered an unpleasant debate by saying that the number of headscarved ladies had quadrupled in recent years after the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) came to power. The Times Plan to lift headscarf ban angers Turkish secular elite
Turkey Ruling Party Looks to Ease Headscarf Ban
Turkish politics at a crossroads
by ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU, YENİ ŞAFAK
Turkey has serious problems. Among these problems, the main ones that stand out include the headscarf ban, aggressive politics waged by secularists, the Southeast problem, public debt and economic fragility due to fluid external sources....
Religion, secularism and the headscarf in daily life by MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
The above phrase is the title of a survey conducted by Tarhan Erdem’s polling company and subsequently published in the Milliyet daily.
‘Türban survey’ and the headscarf ban
It now seems obvious that the daily Milliyet has achieved its goal of creating its own agenda as the “türban survey,” the results of which it began publishing early this week, has created a headscarf frenzy in newspaper columns.Will those who don’t wear the headscarf be subject to persecution?
A new debate was sparked in Turkey after it became evident that the new draft constitution would include a provision to abolish the headscarf ban.Press Roundup
Turkish national Muhtar Kent (left) will succeed Coca-Cola Company President Neville Isdel (right) in July as head of the world's largest beverage maker, the company announced on Thursday. Kent's promotion, covered extensively by almost all Turkish dailies yesterday, boosted Turkish pride.
A way not to get better
by AHMET TAŞGETİREN, BUGÜN
The headscarf issue is one of Turkey’s realities. In other words, the majority of women either cover their hair in some way or look on the removal of the headscarf ban in the public sphere with favor.
Majority and pluralism
by MUSTAFA ERDOĞAN, STAR
Professor Ergun Özbudun, an internationally renowned constitutional expert heading a six-member board of experts preparing a draft constitution, is right to claim that those who accuse the draft constitution and the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government of having been diverted from protecting “pluralism” in the country are not right.
Press Roundup
UN's Human Development Report
by CENGİZ AKTAR, VATAN
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently published its Human Development Report (HDR), as it has each year since 1990.Turkish Press Scanner
Sabah Hospitals seriously unhygienicThe Government Accounting Bureau revealed 48 main problem areas in 138 hospitals during research it carried out on the unhygienic conditions prevalent in many Turkish hospitals, the daily Sabah reported yesterday. These conditions are considered to be the cause of maternal and fetus deaths.Bureau officials visited 19 hospitals in 10 provinces and distributed questionnaires to 119 hospitals. The results are serious, the daily wrote. The law states that hospitals should have infection control nurses but the ones that have been appointed to this position are from a different branch. Although it is prohibited
'Let's pray Apo doesn't die' (!)
Mehmet Ali BirandBargaining in the 'Middle East bazaar'
Cengiz ÇANDARYusuf Kanlı: What's happening in CHP?
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) heads to yet another convention... Though the clan leading the party refuses to acknowledge it, the party is tired of election loses, problematic conventions, infighting, bickering, factional politics and a political jargon incompatible – mostly – with the norms of social democracy. The CHP is heading to yet another convention, but at pre-convention parties party administrations try to put their house in order, try to complete local conventions and make sure that new delegates elected at provincial conventions attend the national convention, and the CHP is pulling down its elected local administrators and replacing them with people it is be
Pro-Kurdish party the focus of MEPs
Leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), Nurettin Demirtaş, targeted both the Turkish government and the European Union, accusing both of having a demanding attitude.
Turkish Press Scanner
Radikal Consulting firm offers advice to traffic accident victimsAhmet Yarar, a traffic accident victim, launched a firm called Damage Management and Consulting Service (Hasmer) for the victims of traffic accidents, the daily Radikal reported yesterday. Since the company started operating in 2005, Yarar said that they have dealt with 3,500 cases. In order to assist people who are unaware of their rights and the existence of an insurance firm, Hasmer is researching and following the cases. Yayar said the grievances increase since most victims do not pay close attention to the details in their insurance policy.Coşkun Keserci lost six of his relatives two years ago in a traf
Yusuf Kanlı: Someone must lift this veil...
President Abdullah Gül and Professor Erdoğan Teziç, the outgoing chairman of the Higher Education Board (YÖK), are at logger heads over a statement the president made to reporters on his way to Pakistan.President Gül said the appointment of a “liberal” personality to replace Professor Teziç as the new YÖK chief would be a pleasing development for everyone, and then made a shocking revelation. What was that shocking revelation? According to the president, examining files presented to him for appointment of a president to a university, he discovered that there was a note regarding one of the candidates. On that note, he said it was claimed that the wife of that candidate was wea
Turban spreads like the mini skirt fashion
Mehmet Ali Birand
The cross-border operation
Cüneyt ÜLSEVER
Who is right, wrong in Gül-education board polemic
The eruption of a battle of words between the presidency and the Higher Education Board (YÖK) became the core issue on the capital's agenda yesterday, hinting at upcoming tension while
The headscarf and secular democracy
A recent survey claims that the number of women covering their heads in Turkey has increased “fourfold” over the last four years.
Pin or ‘rabbit knot’?
Several days ago, a newspaper headline wrote in large letters: “Number of türban-wearing women multiplies fourfold.”
No justice left, what about a survey? by NİHAL BENGİSU KARACA
A survey conducted by Konda, a research and consultancy company, revealed that the percentage of those wearing a headscarf rose from 64.2 percent to 69.4 percent, while the number of women covering their head with a türban increased from 3.5 percent to 16.2 percent.
Horrendous scenarios on division along ethnic lines
Some of the recent statements by Ahmet Türk to Today's Zaman should be carefully interpreted. Noting that ethnic politics is dangerous and full of entrapments, the former Democratic Society Party (DTP) chairman further says: "In the past we used to think the Kurds should have a state of their own, given that everybody else does.
Headscarf hate
by NASUHİ GÜNGÖR, STAR
It is clear that some circles are trying to overshadow efforts exerted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to prepare a new civil constitution with new debates on the "rapidly increasing number of females wearing headscarves."Old mistakes and new opportunities (2) by DOĞU ERGİL
Nowadays, those responsible during the years of their incumbency for repressing demands for cultural diversity and for the exclusion of the Kurds from the national whole with their distinct identities are pouring their hearts out and confessing to their guilt.
Old mistakes and new opportunities (1) by DOĞU ERGİL
The Turkish Republic was born of a total rejection of the Ottoman heritage.
Press Roundup
Immunity is insurance
by BERAT ÖZİPEK, STAR
Restricting the scope of parliamentary immunity is a fatal mistake because parliamentary immunity is a cost we should pay for democracy.
Blindfolding our world view with a headscarf
by LEYLA İPEKÇİ, ZAMAN
The fact that a Muslim female covers or veils herself is something related to physical appearance at first sight.
Story of a potent government
by ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU, AKSİYON
The stance adopted by the government despite the repercussions of attacks perpetrated by the PKK has yielded positive results in a very short time.
Press Roundup
In an attempt to help students from different regions get to know each other, the Education Ministry has organized a project allowing thousands of students from western Turkey to spend their vacations in eastern Turkey and vice versa.
This past Tuesday, "Bloomberg on the Economy" radio host Tom Keene spoke for an hour with Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy about Turkey's economy, its relationship with the U.S. and the Armenian Genocide Resolution, and the country's clashes with the Kurdish PKK.
Ambassador Sensoy's interview followed-up up this past week, when Tom Keene broadcasted live from Istanbul, Turkey. While there, Tom discussed modern Turkish history with Historian Erik Jay Zurcher, the country's relations with Cyprus and the EU with Professor Andreas Theophanous, and Turkey and the PKK with Author Aliza Marcus. Tom spoke with Former Morgan Stanley Economist Serhan Cevik about Turkey's economic growth drivers and the oil market, and then discussed the Gulf Cooperation Council with Goldman Sachs Economist Ahmet Akarli. Tom also featured less-covered topics on "Bloomberg on the Economy," such as the economics of the Black Sea with Professor Serdar Sayan and Kazakhstan's economic outlook with Carnegie Endowment Analyst Martha Brill Olcott. We thought you might find the interviews of interest. Please feel free to follow the link below and scroll down to listen to their conversations:
http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/ontheeconomy.html
What do Alevis demand? by ALİ RIZA UĞURLU
Turkish Press Scanner
Milliyet French police do not capture a PKK member A member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Ahmet Gülabi Dere, was not captured although Turkish officials informed the French police about Dere's entrance into the European Commission building. Dere is wanted by Interpol under red notice [meaning armed and dangerous] in Turkey as well as in the rest of the world after the Turkish court's verdict. It was recently discovered that Dere meet with European Commission officials in Strasbourg. Turkish officials demanded the help of the French police when Dere, who is known as the person responsible for the PKK's foreign affairs, entered the European Commission building
Turkish Press Scanner
Star Routine psychological controls for police:The recent deaths that have occurred because of police clashes have resulted in a series of actions to be taken, the daily Star reported yesterday. Following a statement by the General Directorate of Police that ''You need not commit crime to prevent crime,'' it is now being debated whether the number of psychological and psychometric tests carried out on police officers should be increased.The subcommittee of deputies of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) Human Rights Commission Presidency started carrying out research on the working conditions of police officers. It has&n
New gov't budget draws fire
The government yesterday introduced its 2008 budget to Parliament amid strong criticism by the opposition parties. “The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is transforming Turkey's
Anıtkabir attracts record number of visitors in 2007
Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of the republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, has attracted a record number of visitors in 2007. Some 12,114, 614 people visited Anıtkabir in the first 10 months of
Message to YÖK: The system must change
by SOLİ ÖZEL, SABAH
President Abdullah Gül was hosted as the first foreign guest of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf since President Musharraf took off his military uniform last week.
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to be honest, I am tired reading about the headscarf..))
Posted by: Hans | December 11, 2007 12:41 PM