Do most Turkish women choose to wear the headscarf when they get much older?

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acineto

Yes generally. To wear headscarf is a provision in Islam for women. When women recognise they'are getting older and get closer to death, begin afraiding from Allah (the god). And choose to wear it. This is the same thing for men who gets to mosque 5 times in a day, when they got older.. You cannot see anybody except old people at mosques at morning namaz time.. (Namaz is a provision for both men and women, which is the time you pray Allah. It's five times a day. And can pray anywhere but at mosque is better.) It's human nature..

ottoman

Don't forget as people get older , they loose hair or go white
another reason why elderly woman cover their hair,

I don't think , going through life without a head cover suddenly
because now they are older citizens , religion has any thing to do with covering their heads or hair,,

Totally Blunt

No. As a matter of fact, most women in the Mediterrenean, Europe, Middle East and Asia used to cover their hair in rural areas. Like Gugu said, it is more practical and a tradition. See folk dance costumes for proof.

And nobody has anything to say against this kind of covering. It is none of others' business.

On the other hand, if covering becomes mandatory in certain circles with an unspoken rule, THIS is against basic freedoms. And if the headscarf has become the symbol of a political movement and if the movement is suspected of aiming to get everybody else under the same rule, people feel threatened and object.

AKP said headscarf is their political symbol. And AKP supporters are doing atrocious things to non-supporters, which are ignored by the international media. This is tending toward fascism. And people who object demand that all religious rules or the lack of it should stay individual, and that nobody should force others to not drink alcohol, not indulge in extra-marital affairs, not perform religious rites and not cover themselves.

I hope I have summarized the situation satisfactorily.

adventurous

everywhere on this planet, people tend to be more religious as they get old... So, that IS kÄ±nd of the case but i dont think 80% wears scarf...

BTW i have some doubts about MalaysÄ±a, where women need to get permission when they go outside their country... Therefore %80 Ä±s even less wÄ±th those sort of undemocratic laws...

gugu

Not exactly.
In the small villages and agricultural towns of Turkey where women work at the farms along with the men, they generally prefer to wear headscarves for practical reasons, to be more comfortable while working, to protect from the sun, the dust, etc. This is like a habit. And their headscarves are called yemeni not turban, and they generally do not care if some part of their hair is seen under their yemeni. Their model is much more like that of Benazir Butto (R.I.P).
In the cities, the case is different. When they wear headscarves, their reason is sometimes religious, sometimes political.
When they wear it because of political reasons, the age is not important. Young ones and the elderly ones all wear it.
If their reason is pure religious, then the logical ones wait to finish their schools, and then begin to wear it.
The situation is a bit complicated in Turkey.

greetings_losers

Moha where is freedom of speech, freedom of getting dressed up properly, like a human being but not like a ninja, freedom of being equal by law, freedom of divorcing your husband AND last but not least freedom of not getting stoned in the countries u think that are better than Turkey?

Hah isnt it funny that the backward countries of now we once ruled for hundreds of years try to mentor us now. It's a laugh for a Turk like me but ironically distressing for them.

The answer of this question I'd say is no for me at least. I havent known in my entire life a woman who closed herself after getting married Hmm after getting old I gotta think but really no one particular comes to my mind right now.

Derya

No. My grandmother(s) never wore a headscarf. One of them passed away when she was 84. The other one is 76 now and still doesn't wear.

dare2know

Yes, that's the case in Turkey too.

But I have to add this:
When you observe a difference between age groups, you must think of two possible effects:

Ageing effect: Women might be covering themselves as they get older.

Cohort effect: Women who were born in the earlier decades might tend to cover themselves more than those who were born later. This does not mean that the younger ones will cover themselves as they get older.

arpsy

well the problem is that there is a war of class in turkey, as you could see from some answers, people flag women wearing scarf in two ways one is due to political things and another one they say "rural women"wich means that for them if you are wearing scarf as a young you are or ignorant, or you are wash brain by a political party, and this pseudosecularist people thinks that being uncovered will make them better humans!!! where is the democracy they are preaching? do they think that just because they dont cover they are the one who has the right to stablish the rules and opress the other ones??.
Ä° can say that there are alot of young women wearing scarf because they are following their faith as it is stablish in islam, there are another that ceirtanly are using scarf as a way of protest a undergrown goverment wich is a facist regime, there are another that wear it due to culture and there are another who does not wear scarf at all and i think all of them have the right to wear or not wear it... but while there are close mind people who think that wearing scarf is against "modern turkey" and dont respect the right of the others to do what reall democracy stablish, Turkey will be remaining as a banana republic and remain as a country worst than myanmar.
Yes there are a lot of woman when they get older began to use scarf but as another person said "while they are young they feel like they are western" now the question is why dont they remain like that if in Ä°slam says that when you get older you may remove you scarf and dont use because there is not need to to that then... do they remember that they will die soon and then remember that there is a God that will jugde some day? why dont they fear while their are young?....

fer9dotorres

yep.

MUhammed K

why west doesnt interfere in turkey where hijab has been banned by superior court,why west dont see civil liberty.
why west doesnt condemn this law,which prohibits the very basic and fundamental right of women !
where is freedom of speech and expression ?
if it were gay marriage concern west would have moved at lightening speed ,and would raised question of freedom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

dingdong

no its not like this not even a bit ...

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