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Turkish Airlines Bans Air Hostesses From Wearing Red Lipstick and Nail Polish
May 3, 2013
Air hostesses banned from wearing lipstick and nail polish in Turkey sparking row over increasing Islamic influence | Mail Online
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"One wrote: ‘Why not just ban stewardesses altogether so we can all breathe a sigh of relief?’
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1974 Photo - Things were more modern back then.
Female flight attendants at Turkey’s national airline have been banned from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, prompting renewed fears from secular Turks the country is becoming more Islamic. But critics say it reflects the creeping influence of the government's Islamic values. ‘This new guideline is totally down to Turkish Airlines management's desire to shape the company to fit its own political and ideological stance,’ Atilay Aycin, the president of Turkish Airlines' worker's union, said.
‘No one can deny that Turkey has become a more conservative, religious country.’ Turkey is 99 per cent Muslim, but the NATO state and European Union candidate has a secular constitution. 'They are objecting to the lipstick and nail polish that we have been using for years,' said Asli Gokmen, 30, a former Turkish Airlines' flight attendant who lost her job with more than 300 others last year during a union protest.
May 3, 2013
Air hostesses banned from wearing lipstick and nail polish in Turkey sparking row over increasing Islamic influence | Mail Online
[Excerpts]
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"One wrote: ‘Why not just ban stewardesses altogether so we can all breathe a sigh of relief?’
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1974 Photo - Things were more modern back then.
Female flight attendants at Turkey’s national airline have been banned from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, prompting renewed fears from secular Turks the country is becoming more Islamic. But critics say it reflects the creeping influence of the government's Islamic values. ‘This new guideline is totally down to Turkish Airlines management's desire to shape the company to fit its own political and ideological stance,’ Atilay Aycin, the president of Turkish Airlines' worker's union, said.
‘No one can deny that Turkey has become a more conservative, religious country.’ Turkey is 99 per cent Muslim, but the NATO state and European Union candidate has a secular constitution. 'They are objecting to the lipstick and nail polish that we have been using for years,' said Asli Gokmen, 30, a former Turkish Airlines' flight attendant who lost her job with more than 300 others last year during a union protest.
I actually worked with a guy about 10 years ago from Turkey. He was here on a visa. Heavy drinker, didn't know what a razor was. He liked to swear alot saying "jesus-krist" this and that. Not sure what happened to him. His sister worked back there for the government in some sort of managerial function, and she was pretty progressive, very Western. But I always suspected this guy was just a ticker.......of course, this was all a couple years before 9/11 and no one was really thinking about any of that terrorism stuff beforehand.
