Foreign


Fashionable Observance Billboards tell a lot about the culture of a society. Here, a large ad with the caption, “Gone with the Wind,” gives a classic Hollywood spin to traditional Islamic apparel. The subtle implication: You can be observant and yet fashionable. This shows the move toward a more fundamentalist society in Turkey transcends religious clerics and fundamentalists — businesses play a role as well. When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, instituted legal equality in 1934, women gained many rights including suffrage. But will they survive the fundamentalist shift?


Devoted Muslims Women in Islamic dress enter a mosque to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad’s birth week. Turkey has more mosques — 85,000 of them — than hospitals. It has more mosques per capita than any other country in the world, and boasts more imams than teachers and physicians. Attendance at Friday prayers is greater in Turkey than in Iran. And although it once was outlawed, the teaching of Sunni Islam in Turkish public schools is now mandatory.


Two Ideologies The bazaar or market is a centerpiece of Middle Eastern culture, a place where the people and products of East and West often intermix. Women in Islamic nations only venture out in groups. Here, four women in full Islamic hijab stroll through a modern Turkish bazaar. Hovering overhead is an LCD television screen, evidence of a desire to experience Western influence. But in the foreground these women, traveling in a group as is the Islamic tradition, represent a return to the archaic — and a rejection of the modern advancements around them.


56 NEWSMAX | AUGUST 2012


P. 55: SALVATOR BARKI/FLICKR/GETTY IMAGES / P.56 & 57: FATHI GÖKMEN


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