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Abdullah Gül elected Turkish president

Kai Strittmatter describes how Gül's opponents eventually ran out of arguments and have been left with only one flimsy complaint: Hayrünnisa Gül's headscarf. "A bearded man with a wife who wears a headscarf - and not even loosely in accordance with long-standing Turkish tradition but tightly bound under her chin so as to completely cover her hair and neck. The army hasn't missed a single opportunity to depict this as the worst possible scenario from its point of view. But what about the rest of the country? As far as it's concerned this is a step further towards normality. In a recent poll conducted by the liberal newspaper Milliyet, 70 percent said it made no difference whether the president's wife wore a headscarf or not. Almost as many say it doesn't matter that the president is religious. They still trust Gül to protect Turkey's secular constitution. Gül's opponents will watch the couple's every move, waiting for them to make the slightest mistake. However the past few years under the AKP government have illustrated how superficial their old dress code really is. All of a sudden it was the moustachioed devout who were the more open-minded and the purported secularists in their fine suits who were the diehard conservatives."

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