Women - know your place!
It may be hard to guess from the title, but something remarkable happened this week. No, it wasn't another episode of Harry Enfield.
Something that corrected 90 years of wrong.
90 years ago, the Turkish republic was declared. In 2013, the first deputies wearing headscarves were allowed in - and this time without much of a fuss either!
Election candidate in headscarf causes uproar in France
Feminists and politicians protest after anti-capitalist Olivier Besancenot fields Muslim woman who covers her hair
Olivier Besancenot, the postman-turned-revolutionary at the helm of France's anti-capitalist movement, has been fiercely criticised from all sides of the political spectrum for fielding a headscarf-wearing candidate in forthcoming elections.
Ilham Moussaid, a 21-year-old Muslim woman who describes herself as "feminist, secular and veiled", is running for the far-left New Anti-Capitalist party (NPA) in the south-eastern region of Avignon.
But, despite her insistence that there is no contradiction between her clothing and her political role, Moussaid's candidacy in the regional vote due in March has angered other feminists and politicians.
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