Turban and Scarf

Turban is a headdress consisting of a long scarf-like single piece of cloth wound round the head. It is often used as symbol of Islamic religion statement. Women cover all the hair with turban. Turban is a piece of Turkey. Turban is a staff handed down for a long time in Turkey. Many women cover up and it is kind of tradition which comes from past. There is a debate in Turkey about turban that some religious people want women to be free to wear turban at universities and other people stand up to them with their opposite idea.

Turkey is a free country which means everybody can do everything and quite different than the other Islamic countries, such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia. We are different than the others, because we have got rights which protect people. We have democracy which means nothing is power than laws. So, everybody is free to choose what they want . Turban is one of the rights . To wear turban is up to women. It is just an Islamic symbol and tradition in Turkey.

Turban is generally used by old women in Turkey. There are two types to cover up; to cover your all body up and just cover your head up. The first one is wrong type which is misunderstood. The second one is the right style to cover up which is mentioned in Quran. Quran just says that women should not show their hair not to make men agitate. Therefore, women still cover up in a wrong way in Turkey and in other countries. Many people is against this and they think this style make us as and underdeveloped country. Indeed, turkey has its own covering style which is called "scarf or grandmother style". According to this style, women cover up their head, but they don't cover up every part of their heads. There are still some spaces in their and everything can be seen clearly. This style belongs to us.(Barry, R)

There are lots of argues about turban and scarf in Turkey. The argues about that women just should close their head as grandmother style. Thus, we can separate us from other Arabic countries. According to the authority, closing all your body is just a bigotry. The authority think that we should reduce turban from official business and they did it two years ago. Turban banned from universities and official government offices. There was a big shock after this change, because nobody expected that. Lots of argues existed after it, but these new rules are still accepting.(Berkes,N)

Some people want to live with turban and some people want to live with scarf in Turkey. This argue is never going to be solved, but we have to get used to live without turban. Turban makes us undeveloped country at all. If we give up covering with turban we will be better than now.