Another video from Current TV’s Vanguard series. This one’s about the controversy over women’s headscarves in Turkey. Although the textbook I’m using next semester doesn’t include Turkey as one its 10 cases (the only Muslim country included is Iran), it does include a brief “mini-case” on headscarves in Turkey & France (in the chapter on politics of inclusion & clashing values).
This episode very nicely shows various dimensions of the controversy in Turkey. It also allows for a nice springboard to a comparative discussion of laïcité, the policy of strict secularism that is official state policy in both France & Turkey. Such a discusison is particularly useful for students who (wrongly) assume that all Muslim countries are religiously conservative regimes. They may even draw interesting parallels between Turkey’s practice of laïcité & the “culture war” between religious conservatives & secular liberals in the US.
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I do not understand why they have to wear these scarfs all the time. There needs to be a change to this in the future. The women need to be more independent in the future.
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