Turkish secularists protest, but “Who’s afraid of a headscarf?”

by E Wayne Ross on February 3, 2008

San Francisco Chronicle: Turkish secularists protest, but “Who’s afraid of a headscarf?”

Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, on the country’s Aegean coast, was a sea of red, red, red this past Sunday as hundreds of thousands of Turks – some estimates put the number at around a million – turned out waving their national flag in an impressive demonstration of support for their society’s secular status.