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Overall, the poll findings reveal that majorities of Turks surveyed support freedom of speech and
religion. The importance of religion for most Turks combined with their rejection of Sharia as the
only source of legislation brings some important nuance to the secular-religious debate. In other
words, Turks see religious and democratic values as compatible. Furthermore, Turks’ attitudes
toward the associations with the headscarf suggest that the decision to wear a headscarf is a
personal one, based in faith and not in ideology. In all likelihood, the Constitutional Court will
review the headscarf issue, which may delay the Turkish experiment, but it is certainly one worth
watching.
Survey Methods
Results are based on face-to-face interviews with at least 1,001 adults, aged 15 and older, in
Turkey in May 2007. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with
95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. In addition
to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce
error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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February 25th, 2008 , by jovanav
How he was sentenced
What they call my trial lasted just four minutes in a closed court. I was told that I was guilty and the decision
was that I was going to die’
Clutching the bars at his prison, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh recalls how his life unravelled. “There was no
question of me getting a lawyer to represent me in the case; in fact I was not even able to speak on my own
defence.”
The 23-year-old student, whose death sentence for downloading a report on women’s rights from the
internet has become an international cause célèbre, was speaking to The Independent at his jail in Mazar-i-
Sharif – the first time the outside world has heard his own account of his shattering experience. In a voice
soft, somewhat hesitant, he said: “The judges had made up their mind about the case without me. The way