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The Iconoclast
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Queen embarks on Turkey visit
The Queen and Prince Philip are travelling to Turkey for a four-day state visit, their first to the country since 1971.
During the trip, they will lay a wreath at the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern, secular Turkey.
They will also be guests at a state banquet hosted by President Abdullah Gul and his wife Hayrunnisa.
She is likely to wear an Islamic headscarf despite a ban on them in public and governmental buildings.
The BBC's royal correspondent Peter Hunt said the controversial issue of the headscarf would confront the Queen as soon as she stepped off the plane.
My first reading of this was that the Queen was being required to wear a headscarf. She didn’t wear a scarf or veil in the Gulf, just a somewhat larger and more hideous hat, which was still very much a queenly and British hat, even if it did cover more of her than usual.
But it is Mrs Gul who is causing the trouble by wearing one.
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13 May 2008
Alan

 

 The Queen's visit to Turkey is part of the UK Labour Government's continuing groundwork of support for Turkey's entry into the European Union.

 Turkey's entry is disapproved of by most of the peoples of the EU, including the UK, but this is irrelevant to the powers that be.

 Brown and Miliband (and Bush, for that matter), merely present a 10 second sound bite to the effect that Turkey is 'an ally against terrorism', not that Turkey can be more accurately decribed as a source of Islamic Jihad  - and 80 million Muslims, Jihadists among them, are allowed to move into Europe.

 Note the last paragraph of Turkey's 'Today's Zaman' here:

 

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=141722

 

 
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