WORLD BEAT

When a Head Scarf Is More Than It Seems

By AISHA LABI

Appearances in Turkey are deceptive. A visitor to Istanbul, the ancient metropolis that straddles the Bosphorus and marks the cultural and geographic divide between Europe and Asia, might be tempted to view the city's chic urbanites as evidence of the country's Western inclinations. Those inclinations have been emphasized...

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