Thursday, February 26, 2009

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Turkey's Identity Crisis



"The Headscarf," while to many merely an expression of faith through modesty, has become in Turkey a political symbol that polarizes the country along Islamic and western lines. Are we Muslim or are we European? Can we be both? This NPR article explores Turkey's "Identity Crisis." Check it out.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100874408

(The link thingy doesn't seem to be working, so you'll have to copy and paste - sorry!)

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