[cardinal4]

"My daughter is more European. She wears a bikini. She can choose, however, when she is older. I will talk to her and tell her my beliefs. But I will never say to her what she must do."

Sure, Mustafa. Make sure you explain the part about Honor Killing, too..

[Snickersnee]

How’s that EU membership application coming, hm?

[Porterville]

It will be interesting when Turkey falls to the Muslim Brotherhood.... It should happen in Egypt like yesterday..

[Old Sarge]

“Creeping”?!? How about “Leaping and cavorting”?

[Jorge]

Cover your entire body AT THE BEACH?
What a bunch of weirdos.

How can they look at that picture and NOT see how kooky their religious mandates (and their jealous insecure husbands) make them look?

[bajabaja]

"They don't force me to cover my hair. If the AK party thought like that, I don't think I could be a member." She giggled nervously. "It's not going to be like Iran."

Her nervous giggle says alot. But Turkey officially wants EU membership, presumably for economic reasons, but do they also want EU legal and cultural influences as well?

I wonder if AK's appeal (against the secular and modernist traditions of Ataturk) is really this nation's way of voting "no" on EU membership. In other EU countries, even though the elites played as though EU's acceptance of the new constitution was a foregone conclusion, when the referenda were held, the electorates often showed lesser enthusiasm for union. Maybe this is the Turk on the street's way of saying "no."

[onedoug]

Needed: Another Ataturk.

[kalee]

“It’s not going to be like Iran.”

Get back to me later for an update, I think you’re in for a BIG surprise.