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		<title>Turkish women wearing the hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past fifteen or so years, there has been a marked increase in the number of women from Muslim families living Western societies, who have taken to wearing the hijab or headscarf. This trend, which I have previously observed when living in the UK, was very evident on the streets of Turkey during my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Islamization of Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I continue describing and illustrating our journey back to Prague from Cappadocia in central Turkey, via Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, Croatia again, Slovenia, Italy and Austria, I want to post a more reflective piece about Turkey and the tensions and issues that it currently faces. In many respects these are a microcosm of [...]]]></description>
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