Al-Jazeera - 06 May 2015
When Turkey was founded in 1923 it was on firm secular
principles. Turkish women were restricted in wearing the headscarf -
known as the hijab outside Turkey - in all public sector jobs and
universities for most of the 20th century.
During the current AKP party government, a young, confident, female,
Muslim middle class has emerged, that is less worried about being
socially accepted and more comfortable sharing public spaces with
secularists.
Hulya Aslan is the editor of Ala, a monthly fashion magazine
in Istanbul that serves a growing Turkish market of Muslim women who
think that fashion and Islam are compatible - "conservative" women who
want to wear the hijab but also want to dress fashionably, with colour
and style.
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