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That toughly worded statement was seen as a veiled but unmistakable warning that the military was prepared to intervene if Gul’s election as president resulted in an effort by the Erdogan government to push its Islamic agenda or take measures that threatened the secular nature of the Turkish political order.

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Let me give you an example: in Turkey, where I come from, which is a very hyper-secular republic, until very recently, we used to have what I call "secularism police," which would guard the universities against veiled students.

In Yemen, most women are veiled and they are sitting behind doors and not very much part of the public life.

And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman.

NA: As you know, the image of a lot of Yemeni women is a lot of black and covered, veiled women.

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