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Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Nurcan Dalbudak (C) is greeted wearing a headscarf as she attends a general assembly at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara on October 31, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN


The Kemalists’ Veil of Tolerance

The Kemalists’ Veil of Tolerance

There’s a Turkish joke about a man who is taken on a tour of hell. It’s a dark plain filled with huge vats of boiling liquid in which the damned are slowly deep-frying. Devils stand around the vats, and whenever a sinner pokes his head up out of the liquid, they push...