In Istanbul, They're Shocked by Bikini Ads that Feature ... Bikinis!
From Spiegel Online:
A debate is raging in Istanbul about just how much skin advertising billboards should be allowed to show. The dispute highlights the deep divisions between Muslims and secularists in the country. And it may become an election issue...
On the one side stands the Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Some swimwear manufacturers have complained that [AKP] city officials have banned certain revealing advertising posters for bikinis and bathing suits for "moral reasons."
On the other side are the left-leaning, strict-secularist nationalists who fill public squares each weekend with massive, anti-AKP demonstrations accusing the party of wanting to transform Turkey into a theocracy.
People, can't we all just get along? Here's a compromise.
posted by Scott Baradell at
7:40 AM
3 Comments:
Problem is bigger than bikinis. Problem is about Turkey's ambigous laws, policies, and legislations. Even in higher education institute of Turkey is so vague that allow anybody to interpret the law based on their own ideologies. For example, recently YOK enacted a new regulation: Published in the Official Gazette No: 26519; Date: May 11, 2007. It is about equivalence of diplomas that are earned outside of Turkey. According to this ordinance, a Turkish citizen who earns a higher education degree outside of Turkey will only be granted degree equivalence if all course content is considered in accordance with both the Turkish constitution and the law no 2547 articles 4 and 5. Under this system a course that simply falls outside the student’s major course of study could be held up for question. Article 4's second subheading reads "will be in accord with the national, ethical, human, spiritual and cultural values of the Turkish Nation and conscious of the privilege of being a Turk." based on this someone cannot even give a diploma equivalancy to someone who study fasion...
There is another blog related to this issue. It is located at http://turkishhighered.blogspot.com/
So problem is bigger than bikini...
By
Anonymous, at 5/21/2007
Thanks for the linky
By
Scott Baradell, at 5/21/2007
Ah, Turkey, land of contradictions... The bikini ads probably shocked the same Turks who love the flamboyant Turkish Art singer Bulent Ersoy, the one who's always in diaphanous and/or very low-cut gowns, teehee....
By
Anonymous, at 5/22/2007
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