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Turkish Airlines bans air hostesses from wearing red lipstick and nail polish

  • 03-05-2013 05:30PM
    #1
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭


    Female flight attendants at Turkey’s national airline have been banned from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, prompting renewed fears from secular Turks the country is becoming more Islamic.


    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html


    is it only a matter of time before it will apply to female passengers as well?


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  • #2
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Hitchens wrote: »
    is it only a matter of time before it will apply to female passengers as well?

    That's a ridiculous deduction to make.


  • #3
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    daily mail? nah


  • #4
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    People who work with food aren't supposed to wear nail varnish or make up either..Does that mean the food industry is islamic?


  • #5
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    You aren't allowed to wear make-up working in lots of places. What's your point?


  • #6
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Come on After Hours! You're not getting suitably outraged :pac:


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  • #7
    orestes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Chucken wrote: »
    Come on After Hours! You're not getting suitably outraged :pac:

    QUIET YOU! :mad:


  • #8
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    orestes wrote: »
    QUIET YOU! :mad:

    Ohhhhhhhh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_1bzaj2fw


  • #9
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    I remember reading an article on efforts in Turkey from some quarters to downplay the significance of Ataturk. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the Turkish commander at the battle of Gallipoli and he went on to found modern Turkey and is the reason it so staunchly secular.

    The situation reminds me of recent efforts in Texas to downplay the role Thomas Jefferson, and upplay the role of more conservative people in the American civil war. Jefferson being one of the main people behind the separation of church and state in the US.


  • #10
    lanyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭lanyard


    This was the Turkish Airlines uniform in 1968:

    http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/8129_142459447759_1229038_n.jpg

    Nice


  • #11
    pabloh999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭pabloh999


    lanyard wrote: »
    This was the Turkish Airlines uniform in 1968:

    http://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/8129_142459447759_1229038_n.jpg

    Nice

    Cool 'tache


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  • #12
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    They should ban clothes too.


  • #13
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Recently they stopped serving alcohol on certain routes as there apparently was little demand for it. However most us companies that have conservative values only allow employees to have hair that is a natural colour and not dyed so its not just an "Islamic thing"


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