Meet TRT’s first headscarved presenter.. A Social fabric roundup….
Feyza Çiğdem Tahmaz starts presenting at TRT Türk… News in Turkish here
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Extreme measures: invoking moral order in Turkey
While our fingers point at cohabitation and house sharing, and our minds are troubled by the imposition of a particular lifestyle, we tend to overlook a larger project of social restructuring.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan ne veut plus de cohabitation (entre étudiants) avant le mariage.
L?absence de polémiques qui a accueilli l?entrée de quatre femmes députées portant le foulard islamique à l?Assemblée aurait-t-elle frustré Tayyip Erdogan ? L?opposition CHP a en effet soigneusement évité de tomber dans le piège et de transformer ces 4 députées, jusque là incolores, en victimes des laïcs, alors que le chef de gouvernement AKP semble se mouvoir comme un poisson dans l?eau dans les tensions
VIDEO: Turkish soaps soften Saudi hearts?
Following recent unrest over the expulsion of Ethiopian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, #BBCtrending looks at how a Turkish soap opera might influence the next wave of migrants to replace them.
Syriac tells his bittersweet story about military service in Turkey
Sweden-based Syriac Fehmi Bargello wrote his story about the difficulties while performing his military service in Turkey