Turkey: asama, asama, asama ...

Can't understand a word, love, but let me guess ...

"Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Oops!"

People attend a rally to support the ban on headscarves and to protest against the government in Ankara February 9, 2008. Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved on Saturday controversial constitutional changes aimed at lifting a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf in universities, the assembly's speaker said. At the anti-headscarf rally, the second in Ankara in a week, feelings were running high as protesters sang patriotic songs and waved pictures of Kemal Ataturk, revered founder of the modern secular Turkish republic.

Up your nose with a rubber hose hijab!
Burka is not the new black!

And earlier ...
People attend a rally to support the ban on headscarves, at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the soldier-statesman who founded the secular Turkish republic, in Ankara February 2, 2008. Secular Turks rallied on Saturday against a plan by the government to allow women students to wear the Muslim headscarf in university, a move they say will usher in a stricter form of Islam in Turkey

Exhume Ataturk and clone his DNA! There are no real men left. It is our only hope!

February 1st ...
A protester shouts slogans as he holds a banner in Ankara, February 1, 2008, during a demonstration against the regulation at the Turkish Parliament to lift the Islamic headscarf ban in universities. The words on the sign read: "If there is no secularism, there won't be freedom, democracy, science.[yawn] I'm getting tired of all these rallies. Nobody is listening.

Looks like it's all over bar the shouting, so cue the Bee Gees, there's a new chic in town...

Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
and you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive,
ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive.
ah, ah, ah, ah ...
stayin' aliii hiiive

Here they come ...
Hey, no puppy dog looks, I got no lines for that!

A woman participates in a demonstration in Ankara February 16, 2008, to protest against the ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities and in public. Her headband reads: "Freedom to headscarf".
Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism,
Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, That-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.
All we are saaaaying, is give Islam a chance ...


Free my hijab, Islamophobes!
Children hold signs as they stand on a sculpture to protest against the refusal by university rectors to allow students wearing headscarves on campus in Ankara March 1, 2008. Turkey has lifted a ban on students wearing Muslim headscarves but covered women are still marching on university gates demanding to be let in. The rectors, part of the secular elite, have said they will not allow covered students into university until a more detailed law on clothing requirements is passed. The sign on the left reads: "No to uniformity".

I am hijab, hear me roar!
Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest in front of the Istanbul University in Istanbul February 29, 2008. Turkey has lifted a ban on students wearing Muslim headscarves but covered women are still marching on university gates demanding to be let in.

No university for you! OK, maybe tomorrow.

Asama, asama, asama, iste ideo blah blah: a one-way ticket to burkarama, all in the name of liberty.

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