Turkish conservative social engineering: Building more prisons; Freeing headscarf for students, banning make-up, tattoos and piercings

Gov’t frees headscarf for students, bans make-up, tattoos and piercings  Hurriyet Daily News A government decree changing the regulation on the dress code in public schools is published in the Official Gazette Turkey is Building 207 Prisons, 103 Courthouses  Bianet :: English Justice Ministry has announced that they will build 207 new prisons and 103 courthouses with … Read more

Ece Algan on the latest TV series crisis, Kamil Pasha on Turkish grade schoolers’ dress codes. A social fabric roundup…

  Dreaming of a horse with a bigger role: Television and Erdogan?s quest for soft power in the Middle East from On Turkish Media and Cultural Politics by ecealgan Disappointed with a popular Turkish TV series (Muhtesem Yuzyil) on the life of Suleiman the Magnificent, Prime Minister Erdogan criticized its depiction of the successful, expansionist … Read more