I don't understand... Why..?

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lastdemocratalive

Attention: The following paragraphs are aimed to describe a certain group in Turkey and is not applicable to many people who are against AKP as their political preference)

Because most of them (ferocious opposers of akp a.k.a. laicists, a.k.a laics, a.k.a. "modern Turks"-actually opposite) are full of hatred, have no love in their hearts. They are either part of the oligarchy that has ganged up decades ago or they are just being used by that group.
They have no intellectual value, they have but screams and yellings ,reminiscent of one in agony. They talk in slogans. They use inconcrete symbols that even they do not understand in their speech like modernism, laicity ,"Turkey is becoming Iran" and crap like that. The laicism they are in favor of is not even in books or in history of any country except for African countries like Algeria.
They do believe that a woman (Nur Serter )has changed to be a pure positivist scientist after having been a member of a religious cult. But they do not trust the prime minister who says that he changed.
They are ready to set the whole country to fire to cook their eggs.

THESE SO CALLED ULTRA-LAICS ARE SO WILLING TO DIVIDE US INTO TWO MAIN GROUPS : LAICS AND ANTI-LAICS.
THEY DO WANT IT BECAUSE THEIR SCREWED-UP VERSION OF LAICISM IS THEIR ONLY WAY OF BRINGING BREAD HOME. SO PITY....
Cry the beloved country...
DEAR FELLOW TURKISH FRIENDS.
IT IS TIME TO UNITE
IT IS TIME TO EMBRACE ONE ANOTHER REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, THEIR STATUS,
IT IS TIME FOR RELIGIOUS, NON-RELIGIOUS BECOME ONE.
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, IT WILL HAPPEN. REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE PARANOIA THEY WANT TO SEED IN US. YOU WILL SEE THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR IS NOT GONNA SLIT YOUR THROAT, LAIC OR NOT.

PS: MISS PEARL
NO OFFENCE BUT I DO NOT THINK YOU UNDERSTOOD MY ARGUMENTS. HOW CAN YOU AGREE WITH ME AFTER WHAT YOU SAID? I AM A DEMOCRAT NOT A MILITARIST.

whatsername

well its easy, see turkish people(sorry, i meant predators) are still stuck in the stone age, it has nothing to do with being muslims, i have tons of muslim friends(im christian, ARMENIAN) cause i live in Lebanon and they don't do that

Totally Blunt

The scarf is just a piece of cloth. The head beneath the scarf is what could threaten laicism. Ruling AKP party has shown again and again that they have no respect for other beliefs (Islam other than their own version and other religions) and lack of it, i.e. atheism. No sincere Muslim feels threatened by laicism, but somehow AKP has declared war against it.

Their motto is: live and (don't) let live.

eccie83

Because he's in charge of representing a laik country as set out by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who modernised Turkey. Now they are trying to set Turkey backwards. Its well on its way to becoming the next Iran. There's been a few warnings made by the Armed forces to the government after the governments foolish acts on the 23rd of april. Governments should not push for religious fanaticism

Artistic Hand

I think I harrassed ararat twice.. He is a girly boy... he sounds like he is armenian... also the asker sounds like armenian tooooo

Mary

yes, I guess, because wearing scarf is very annoying in summer

Irmak

I respect her but...

Atatürk made reforms in Turkey years ago..That is called 'Hat Law' and the other is 'Dress Law'

I really don't know..Don't know..It's 'going back' for Turkey, in my opinion.

Charmed

İ just don't want him,,,,,and his wife,,,,,,,,İ want them,,,,,,to get out of our lives!!!!!!

young turk

People see it as a threat to our modern way of life. Most turks don't like radical islam since it is the main reason for the stagnation and fall of our predecessor, the ottoman empire.

DejaVu

what has it got to do with you????

you are not a Türk or someone who lives in Türkiye, I am not even going to answer you...

mind your own business..

bir gun hepiniz oleceksiniz untm

who ever say that turkey is a secular counrty they r sleeping TURKEY IS A MUSLIM COUNTRY AND WILL STAY AS A DEVELOPED MUSLIM COUNTRY .............

Earthling

Because they know better really.
It's not only about the headscarf, it's the mentality that they're trying to impose on whole country and on governmental system. Most Turkish people don't want him to be the President because now they will have no obstacle before them in passing their laws. They will do as they wish (they wish of course). And the past 4 years are the evidence of what kind of a mentality they have. And I don't really understand how some people are still so gullible to trust them.

Mustifier! You're talking as if religious people are mistreated here. Are you really living in Turkey? Noone's against people practising their religion, we just don't want our country ruled religiously! We don't want takkeli prime ministers or presidents. If anything, these takkeli people are trying to divide the country. It's them who try to mistreat non-religious people (Having just a look at "Din kültürü ve ahlak bilgisi" books in schools, one can see what they are on about.) Do you really live in this country, really?! You're so intellectual, I admire you (!)

hanibal

Who is Kemal ? Your friend ? If you try to mean Mustafa Kemal Ataturk you must write Atatürk.

In UK can Queen wear like a priestess clothes? In Syria ' s First Lady wearing a scarf?
Turkish First Lady is representing to Turkey not only to Islamic countries. They are representing the Turkey to the world. So they must wear what the other first ladies wear. They cant wear a symbol of anything. Coes a first lady must be in same distance to any idea and any symbol.

Layla

This might help. I just read a book about veiling in Turkey and had had to summarize the book for a class. It was called: The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling By: Nilüfer Göle

the summary of veiling goes like this:

With Islamic communalism the concepts of individual choices in “lifestyle, monopolizing the cultural code” were repressed for the good of the whole. The Islamic community is to be measured by how women participate publicly such as veiling, restricted public visibility, and restricted public visibility, and restrained encounters between the sexes. Political Islam while recognizing a woman’s identity empowering them to become outspoken, militant, and educated; bringing “a shift in the semiotics of veiling, which has long evoked the traditional, subservient domestic roles of Muslim women.” The new veiling is part of the public collective through recognition of their Muslim identity. Islamic politics provided a way for women the opportunity to participate publicly and professionally. “Women are now working as columnist and journalist,” attending political meetings, writing novels, making films all inspired by Islam and not forgetting their roles as women.

Religious tradition would argue women only took “motherhood and wifely tasks in response to religious laws and were other wise detached from social functions.” Salahaddin Asim believed that with this the women were seen as ‘female beings’ rather that ‘human beings’. Asim would call for women to be seen as human beings feeling religion as the main course of “Turkish Westernization.’ Believing veiling was the root cause for separation of women from civilized life. He further states as long as women are dependent on men they will never become civilized, independent or social people. The modern Turkish Republic believed if reform began with the woman they would in turn teach their children. By doing so the boys will respect women and girls will know their rights and they would spread these reforms to not only the community but on to their own children, with principles of liberation and rationality. By removing the veil as a symbol of Islamic traditions would help bring this change.

The traditional Islamic outlook can be summarized as veiling as a social requirement as a way of protecting women from the lust of men. Cohabitation is forbidden because it will lead to adultery. Furthermore women are to never be alone with men who are not family members.

Veiling has continued to be center of the debate for Modernization. It has been a political assertion by women since the 1970’s and the beginning of the Revivalist Islamic movement in the East. Islamization gained visibility through the veiling of women in new public spaces. On the university campuses it became a controversial issue. Veiling empowers the female students as a kind of uniform, with modern styles. It is not only just covering of the head but being more modest, and how women participate in public with a dress code, bodily manners with public behavior. Many of these women also consider it a help in segregation of sexes in public spaces. Still these women wish to participate in social and public life and the hajab help as a form of protection creating an Islamic utopia.

Ararat number one

that is strange, turks are muslim and they don't like scarf?
it is like having two face.
I grew up in a islamic country and islam says a women should cover her hair and part of her face, and men can have four wives, and much much more . you guys have to respect your religious.

Coz head scarfs degrade women!!! only the leader for Turkey is our great Ataturk!!! Turkey is secular and will stay secular.. i agree with mustifier

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