Turkish press teaches how to wear a legally approved headscarf...Illustrated one day course:)
Although I got irritated by Radikal's too pro-CHP politics in recent years, the newspaper now seems to be retreating to its "marginal" and"critical" position. This first page well redescribes positions on the headscarf debate. "A republic of fear" Secularists fear that more veiled women to come and Islamists fear that with the new definition of 'turban', parts of women bodies will be exposed. Well, being part of a small partner of mainstream press, Radikal still plays a trick. Who really produces a climate of fear? We don't know much what Islamists are up to publicly, but mainstream TV channels and press are broadcasting scenarios of ultrasecularists' ultra nightmares everyday...But another level, Radikal headline signifies a social/political habitus. A constant need to produce fears...
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MEMRI Blog: PM Erdogan Angry About Photographs Published By Turkish Media
Turkey’s mainstream dailies and some TV channels have published in the last two days, photographs of students that took the open high school exams in various schools around the country, under front page headlines such as “Turban Show In High Schools”. The photographs depicted the vast majority of the students wearing turbans [Islamic head cover] and some wearing black chodors, all of which are not permitted by law. In some places there were also male students wearing Islamic pants [shalvar] and caps [takke].
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Comments
Fear is a dangerous tool in the hand of fools.
Posted by: Hans | January 30, 2008 12:58 PM
As for Radikal: A nice idea to choose Munch's 'Scream'. :)
The 'arts of keeping people in permanent fear' are brilliantly described by Georgio Agamben ('State of Exception').
Posted by: Sean Jeating | January 30, 2008 03:14 PM