{"id":70189,"date":"2013-05-02T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=70189"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:34:55","slug":"turkish-airlines-bans-bright-lipstick-on-hostesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/05\/02\/turkish-airlines-bans-bright-lipstick-on-hostesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines bans bright lipstick on hostesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkish Airlines has banned air hostesses from wearing brightly-coloured lipsticks such as red or pink, a move which has sparked fierce debate as the government is accused of trying to Islamise the country, according to reports.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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In recent months the booming airline – which is 49 percent state-owned – has also stopped serving alcohol on internal flights\u00a0Photo: AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Agence France-Presse in Ankara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

3:30PM BST 01 May 2013<\/p>\n

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Numerous women posted pictures of themselves wearing bright red lipstick on social media websites to protest at the measure, part of a new aesthetics code for stewardesses working for Turkey’s main airline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lipstick ban is the latest in a string of conservative measures adopted by the airline, which have sparked the ire of fiercely secular Turks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“This measure is an act of perversion. How else could you describe it?” said Gursel Tekin, vice-president of the main opposition party CHP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Turkish Airlines defended the ban, saying in a statement yesterday that “simple make-up, immaculate and in pastel colours, is preferred for staff working in the service sector”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In recent months the booming airline – which is 49 percent state-owned – has also stopped serving alcohol on internal flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In February, images of proposed new uniforms for flight attendants bringing in ankle-length dresses and Ottoman-style fez caps were criticised as too conservative. The skirts of Turkish Airlines stewardesses once came in far above the knee.<\/p>\n

However the more conservative new uniforms have not been adopted.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Recep Tayyin Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party, in power for over a decade, is often accused of creeping efforts to coerce the country to be more conservative and pious.<\/p>\n

Turkey is a fiercely secular state, despite being a majority Muslim country. Under Mr Erdogan’s rule headscarves – banned in public institutions – have become more visible in public places and alcohol bans are more widespread.<\/p>\n

Edited at\u00a0telegraph.co.uk\u00a0by Sarah Titterton<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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