Turkey's Republic Day party dress code: no head scarves; A spat over Islamic garb marred a celebration of the Turkish republic's anniversary on Wednesday.(WORLD)

The Christian Science Monitor | October 31, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Nicholas Birch Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

ISTANBUL -- Wednesday was supposed to be the day Turks celebrated the heritage of Kemal Ataturk, the resistance hero who 80 years ago dragged his people from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire into secular republican modernity.

Instead, it degenerated into a squabble, nominally over women's clothing, that had more to do with what it is to be modern in this mainly Muslim country straddling two continents and two civilizations.

As always with the most serious quarrels, this one ...

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