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Published: 2010-05-14 09:58:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 3430; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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Kusadasi, Turkey.A Turkish family is enjoying the sea at the Aegean coast of Anatolia.
Turkey is a secular country and the people are overwhelmingly Muslim. By some estimates, more than half of Turkish women wear a headscarf. The right of women to wear the Islamic headscarf is at the heart of a fierce debate. It has resulted in a clash between those favoring the secular principles of the state, such as the Turkish Army, and those who are more conservative with their religious beliefs.
© 2010 Jordan Kevrekidis
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In addition, choose only a snapshot of the turkey and the Turkish people can not tell ... There are different people in different countries or Avrupda ... Everyone is free to the style of life. I do not have any other pictures of turkey ... Have been one of these ...
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In addition, choose only a snapshot of the turkey and the Turkish people can not tell ... There are different people in different countries or Avrupda ... Everyone is free to the style of life. I do not have any other pictures of turkey ... Have been one of these ...
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Turks Each type can not you see ... You should see us at one ... Even though they are away from the eastern, ortadoğuludur .. But it is not Turkish.
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You said "they are not turk", so what are they?
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I like your use of selective colour here. I think it adds a lot the the picture, and your message. Well done!
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i think this photo is great!.
i live in Turkey. in here, women don't have to wear headscarf. you can see a woman who with mini-skirt too. here is really strange country.
last week, i saw a couple of christian who trying to give Bibble to all people in the Istiklal Street at Taksim/Istanbul. the people were interested with Bible.
i'm secular. i think every person have to rights about the way to believe. no one can push anyone to his/her way.
anyway; i like this photo 
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Thank you Akhun! Turkey is a very interesting place with a multicultural society! This secular system could only work with more tolerance towards religious and cultural beliefs and ethnic groups in extent…
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Beautiful shot my friend! very interesting and full of life! Fantastic!
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Thanks for your support Mikko!!!
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Dear friend,
You have watched and reported, if not gave solutions for the conflicts, like you welll exposed for Nicosia.
I heard there are ancients questions about muslims. But the intervention from some countries
had make it worst.
I feel turkish as a lost people,
while a nation. And divided between the ones which had gone to Germany, to get a better life,
and from them, the ones that returned, talking another language and absorved an ocidental culture.
They are hated by the all the people around, and there's no exit, it seems, but the rational.
While the really muslisms are not respected in Palestine, f. ex.(Einstein in 1933 had idealized an better way for the 'promissed land' than the politics in practice after the II World War, that will not have peace.
I heard a lot of aspects must me
placing in the right place, mistakes and errors of the last fifty years, a half of a century.
For the turkish, the need to desire to belong for the CE is an bad ideal once a while. They must to stop to make alliances against the Taliban, and for against the muslisms themselves, for extension. Alliances like they made with Germany at the World Wars. They must to be mercenaries and stop, to watch and reflect about themselves.
The Owners of the World, finally, have making a continuous and overwhelming practice, practice which is prejudicing the Humanity, all the beings and resources, the Earth itself.
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You have opened too many subjects for discussion (and debate). I don’t know in which one to reply! In the main subject (headscarf), I think that every person has the right to exercise his / hers religious beliefs freely! The government shouldn’t be involved in any way (as I said before).
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I'd love to put my toes into the Aegean Sea. Someday I will. :] I wish there wasn't such a difficult debate over the headscarf issue, even though the meaning goes deeper than simply wearing a material on your head. Then again I'm not really one to talk considering I'm not Muslim (I'm a deist).
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Yes, you’re right Leigh Anne! It’s not easy for us (“westerners”) to completely understand the issue… Simply, I think that every person has the right to exercise his / hers religious (or cultural) beliefs freely! The government shouldn’t be involved in any way…
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Separation of church and state. Hear hear. :]
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I don’t think that this issue has to do with the “Separation of church and state” in Turkey. I think that it has to do with the “Turkish style” of secularism (Kemalism) against tradition (religion in extent)…
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Wrong choice of words then, I suppose.
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Ti einai auta ta stroggyla apo pisw? 
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Είναι τσιμεντένιοι κύλινδροι, υποθέτω για τη κατασκευή κάποιου δημόσιου έργου…
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pisw pisw grafei TAKSI!
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Ναι, από πίσω είναι ο παραλιακός δρόμος του Kuşadası…
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