Let's not discriminate between headscarved women

It is obviously very meaningful that those who until yesterday had been talking about the grievances of "our headscarved sisters" are now treating those who have gathered in front of daily Zaman as mere "step-sisters."

But we should not exaggerate this meaningful situation...

Because the more we exaggerate, the more we give the impression that we pre-assume that there is a secret immunity shield for the headscarved sister and thus fall into the danger of accepting that all kinds of brutality are normal for those who do not wear a headscarf.

Perhaps what we need to do is this:

Without looking to see whether she wears a headscarf of not, support all our sisters that have been kicked, tear-gassed and pushed around.

Daily Zaman before and after Gülen ownership

Zaman did not belong to the Fettullah Gülen group when it first started publishing.

It was the most independent, original, interesting, different and anarchist newspaper in Islamic circles.

Nabi Avc?, who is currently Turkey's education minister used to write by the pseudonym Enes Harman for the daily. Islamic feminism first came into being at the paper. For the first time a newspaper in Turkey had a page dedicated to the environment. It has been the subject of several academic works.

This beautiful dream which started in the second half of the 1980s ended quickly.

Something happened and the Fethullah Gülen brotherhood became the new owner of the paper by finding the money to buy it.

And then?

The youth of the Islamic circles, who read, wrote, thought and produced became orphans.

Those were the days!

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