At 57, she is a vivid portrait of the nuances of life in Turkey — she's a practising Muslim, a feminist, an activist and a former academic. For years, and particularly in the 1980s and '90s, more openly religious Turks were marginalized in the name of preserving that secularism. But she feels Erdogan and his AK Party are now ostracizing less religious Turks, and that piety is becoming increasingly political. She and other parents are frightened, for example, by changes to Turkey's school curriculum. The number of state-funded religious schools — imam hatip schools — is also increasing.

Source: CBC News November 01, 2017 09:00 UTC