From: hikmetersoy [mailto:hikmetersoy@superonline.com]

Bugün gazetelerde Kılıçdaroğlunun beyanatı vardı ” Bundan sonra sanırım türban takmayanlara baskı başlar…!!! ”  neden olmasın.

Cumhuriyet 15.10.2013

Erdoğan’ın açıkladığı paket ve Alevi sorunu dış basında

Türkiye dönüşüyor

TÜRBAN SİNSİ BİR ADIM

New York Times gazetesine bir mektup yazan Prof. Carol   Delaney, “Türkiye’de türban yasağının kaldırılması demokrasi işareti olarak görülmemeli” dedi. Türkiye’de yıllarca araştırmalar yapan Prof. Delaney, laikliğe karşı “sinsi bir adım” olarak nitelediği türbanın serbest bırakılmasının kadın haklarını zayıflattığını belirtti.

Letter

Head Scarves in Turkey

Published: October 13, 2013

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To the Editor:

The Turkish government’s lifting of the ban on head scarves in government offices (news article, Oct. 9) should not be taken as a sign of democracy, despite what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims.

Instead, it is another insidious step toward the Islamist state he desires and against the secular republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Don’t forget that Mr. Erdogan is the man who declared: “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.”

Furthermore, this step diminishes rather than promotes the equal rights of women in that country. The wearing of Islamic head scarves in Turkey is quite a different thing from what it is in the United States, and American citizens and politicians should not so easily be deceived.

CAROL DELANEY
Providence, R.I., Oct. 9, 2013

The writer, emerita professor of anthropology at Stanford University, has spent years doing research in Turkey.

A version of this letter appears in print on October 14, 2013, on page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Head Scarves in Turkey.