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Okay Gönensin A 10-year 'Reign of the Religious Right'? Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	Newspaper writer	In the news: Mid-March 2004...In the run-up to Turkish local elections (held 28 March 2004), Gönensin (who writes for the secularist Vatan Gazetesi) made two startling predictions -- that would have been unthinkable a year ago. By his reckoning, 1) the AKP would capture a whopping 60% of local voters across the country -- enabling easy victories in more than 90% of Turkish cities, towns, and villages (Note: Gönensin was mistaken in that prediction -- see the pre-election polls and the final election results) -- which, he opined, would pave the way for 2) a 10-year 'Reign of the Religious-Right', at both the national and local levels. (Note: the jury is still out on this point...) According to Gönensin, the only problem the AKP will face, after its certain victory later this month, is its own 'complacency'. [See the Haftalik Dergisi mini photo-article at left.] And 'the writing seems to be already on the wall' because, at the national level, the ruling (and supremely confident) AKP has already begun piling double-taxes on 'products of sin' (such as beer, wine, liquor, and cigarettes -- favorite targets of fundamentalist Turkish Muslims) while blaming the exorbitant tax-rates on harsh IMF loan-repayment requirements. With its 60% religious-right majority in hand (if true), the AKP may feel free now to enforce its version of morality on the remaining 40% of the population.
Selma Gönüllü Bakırköy's Beautiful and Brainy Belidiye Başkanı to be? Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	Municipal politician	In the news: 19 March 2004... Thirty-five-year-old business college-grad Gönüllü is the MHP candidate for mayor of Bakırköy in local elections to be held 28 March. While campaigning on a platform to vastly improve city services, she has won the 'hearts and minds' of her potential constituents with her politeness, industriousness, and elegance. (See photo-article at left.) In spite of the fact that she's already married (and a mum), we especially like her chances with male voters of that fair city. (See photo-article at left.) Notwithstanding high-profile political success-stories like the one enjoyed by former Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, successful female candidates for public office are few and far between in Turkey. (Click here to learn more about the dearth of female politicians.) Will Gönüllü 'score a goal' for the fairer-sex on election day? Stay tuned. We'll let you know.Update, 30 March 2004: We're sorry to report that Selma hanım bit the dust at the hands of the CHP candidate, Ateş Ünal Erzen.
Ece Görsel When 'Spanish Man' magazine published Görsel's "Most Beautiful Turkish Body" Hıncal Bey's face turned white! Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	clothes (and no-clothes) model When Ece met Ceyhun... Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	At this time (April 2005), Görsel's life is entertwined with that of Hıncal Uluç -- whose entry is found at 'U'.. Ece's bra cup runneth over Left click for image enlargement and legibility.
Abdullah Gül The Deputy PM	Religious-right Politician	In the news: May-August 2007...When his AKP majority party tried to force D-PM Gül's nomination for Turkish Republic President in May, it caused 1) massive protests by secularists, 2) a Supreme Court nullificaton of the nomination, and 3) a stern Turkish military warning to the AKP about anti-secular intentions. -- all because of Gül's Turban-wearing wife Hayrünnisa... And that resulted in a call for an early national election. Now (in August) after its resounding repeat victory in the early election, the AKP appears ready to nominate Gül again. Speculation as to the Turkish military's reaction, should Gül actually win the nomination, runs rampant. Served as lame-duck Prime Minister after the AKP National Election victory, in November 2002. Relinquished the post to Tayyip Erdoğan in 2003 after Erdoğan was pardoned and then won a parliamentary seat from Siirt. Served as Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in 2003-2007 His Türbanlı wife is the militant Hayrünnisa Gül
Hayrünnisa Gül The Turkish Second Lady Hürriyet Gazetesi February 2004	Türbanlı spouse of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gül Did the right thing, finally... Left click for image enlargement and legibility. Lower profile case, same outcome... Left click for image enlargement and legibility.	In the news: 2 March 2004... Hayrünnisa Gül withdraws her 'Türbanlı' case from the European Human Rights Court (AIHM). Her High School education interrupted by marriage at 16, Ms. Gül belatedly received a non-attending High School Diploma in 1997. When in 1998, she submitted her application to enter Ankara University's Arab Language and Literature Department, she provided her application photo bedecked in a religiously symbolic turban. Because wearing of the turban is strictly forbidden in all of Turkey's secular state-sponsored educational institutions, her application was denied. In response, she sued in Turkish court to overrule the University -- but lost her case there too. Still itching for a fight, she petitioned the AIHM -- declaring that her educational rights had been denied. Her AIHM case languished untried until today, when she (finally) withdrew it, saying, 'I did it for my husband. When he became Turkish Foreign Minister, it put me in the position of being both plaintiff (against Turkey) and defendant (of Turkey) in my case. But, I still believe I was right.' (See photo-story at left.) That may all be true Hayrünnisa hanım, but the general Turkish public is glad to see the back of you on this issue -- and wonder if the recent French Government decision to also ban wearing of religiously-symbolic Muslim turbans in the secular French school system had anything to do with your decision. Eh? The words above were no sooner out of our mouth than the AIHM signaled its readiness to rule (in April 2004) on the issue of religiously-symbolic turbans in public institutions. The court has picked another 'long-languishing' case -- the one of Turkish university student Leyla Şahin who began wearing her turban after she'd fooled admittance authorities to gain entrance. And the early betting is for a 4-3 or 5-2 decision against Turbanlı Leyla. Hurriyet Gazetesi, 12 March 2004 (See photo-article at left.) Update: 18 May 2005 -- As it turned out, Leyla Hanım lost her case by a unanimous vote of all 7 judges..."The European Court of Human Rights today notified in writing its judgment in the case of Leyla Şahin v. Turkey (application no. 44774/98). The Court held unanimously that 1) there had been no violation of Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of thought, conscience and religion); and 2) no separate question arose under Articles 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and 10 (freedom of expression), Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) taken together with Article 9 of the Convention, and Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education)."
Ebru Gündeş Prissy Ebru Hanım has a short memory... Click for enlargement!	Pop/Arabesk Singer, born 12 October 1974 in Istanbul. Had much ballyhood breast implants in 2005, which 'boosted' her already burgeoning career. In her public statement to the press after the op, Ebru Hanım said, "I feel better about myself now, and my friends like my looks better too."	In the news: 13 July 2006...After the Turkish paparazzi caught Sibel Can in a revealing Tanga 'popo' shot, Ebru Hanım felt compelled to make the following (very prissy) statement: Beni kimse o şekilde görüntüleyemez. Bu konuda çok dikkatliyim. Evde soyunurken bile perdeleri kapatıp, ışıkları söndüren bir insanım. Çünkü karşıdan biri beni çeker diye çok korkarım. Benim yetişme tarzım bu. Biz öyle öğrendik. Sahne kıyafet de çok dikkatliyim. No one can every see me (in a tanga) like that. I'm very careful about such things. I'm the kind of person who even shuts the blinds and turns off the lights before undressing at home. It's because I'm very afraid that someone might photograph me. It's the way I was educated, the way I was taught. I'm also very careful in the way I dress on stage. Ed. Note: Ebru Hanım's statement is as hollow as a doughnut's hole when you consider the fact that she has bragged in public about how she joined the 'Mile High Club' as a teenager -- and in view of her 2005 breast-implantations, which she shows off whenever there's a camera in range. Other Mentions #1 Other Mentions #2 Other photos: Performance Photos #1 Performance Photos #2
Reşat Nuri G�ntekin	Novelist and playwright of 'core' Tukish literature, such as Yaprak Dökümü.	See also: Reşat Nuri G�ntekin on the Turkish Movies, etc. page.