The start of Turkish politics in 2001 with the "headscarf" controversy was not surprising to me, like most foreign journalists because this "instrument", which has been on the agenda of Islamist politics since the early 1990s, was also widely used on the eve of both the March 27, 1994, municipal elections and the December 24, 1995, parliamentary elections, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's statement that "our kerchiefed sisters are being persecuted" pla...

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