The headscarf issue is not the only hotly contested front in Turkey’s culture war. Secularists say creationists are now waging an aggressive effort in Turkey to undermine popular acceptance of evolutionary theory. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul on the creationist counterattack.
Part 1: Turkey's Creationist Movement 
Part 2: Turkey's Headscarf Debate
Turkey: Headscarved Graduate Students Lead Libertarian Movement
BY NICHOLAS BIRCH
Two Turkish headscarf-wearing graduate students, Neslihan Akbulut and Hilal Kaplan, constitute an unlikely pair of revolutionaries. Against the backdrop of the country’s divisive debate over the lifting of a university headscarf ban, the duo is pressing ahead with a petition drive that seeks a radical expansion of civil rights.
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