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  • Turkish bikini attack highlights split society

    08/30/2006 1:16:20 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 127 replies · 32,389+ views
    The Manila Times ^ | August 30, 2006 | Burak Akinci/AFP
    ANKARA: An attack by Islamists on a young Turkish woman wearing a bikini on a beach has reopened the question of the direction that the country, overwhelmingly Muslim but traditionally secular, is now taking. The incident happened earlier this month at the resort of Karaburun, near Izmir in the west of the country, the most Europeanized part. The young woman had asked a group of headscarf-wearing women and their families not to soil the beach with the used diapers of their children, only to be called a prostitute because she was wearing a bikini. She was then attacked by the...