{"id":50787,"date":"2012-02-06T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50787"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:24:22","slug":"new-twists-and-turns-in-turkeys-head-scarf-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/06\/new-twists-and-turns-in-turkeys-head-scarf-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Twists and Turns in Turkey&#8217;s Head-Scarf Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SUSANNE G\u00dcSTEN<\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL \u2014 When the auto writer Merve Sena Kilic shifted a Mini into gear for a recent test drive, she had little idea that she was fueling a remarkable shift in the head-scarf debate in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Covering her hair with a patterned cream and brown scarf, Ms. Kilic steered the sporty Mini down winding forest roads outside Istanbul for a November episode of her television program, \u201cA Passion for Cars,\u201d while discussing its merits with her co-host Burcu Cetinkaya, a glamorous blonde who also happens to be a champion rally driver in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The program on the private station Kanal 24 initially aired without causing a stir, but when a photo of the women and the car appeared last month in the society pages of the daily newspaper Hurriyet, Ms. Cetinkaya received a call from Borusan Holding, the company that distributes the Mini and BMW brands in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>via New Twists and Turns in Turkey&#8217;s Head-Scarf Debate &#8211; NYTimes.com.<\/p>\n<p>More: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SUSANNE G\u00dcSTEN ISTANBUL \u2014 When the auto writer Merve Sena Kilic shifted a Mini into gear for a recent test drive, she had little idea that she was fueling a remarkable shift in the head-scarf debate in Turkey. Covering her hair with a patterned cream and brown scarf, Ms. Kilic steered the sporty Mini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":65961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4257],"class_list":["post-50787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-headscarf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}