The Scarfs are vanishing from Konya?

Might Hell as well freeze over?

Today I read this article in the New York Times - and I had to read it twice and thrice:

Have you ever been to Konya? I have been, early in the Nineties and BEFORE the most significant rise of Necmettin Erbakans party. At that time you could go wherever you wanted in Turkey - and it was mostly forbidden in the cities to wear a headscarf as a woman. And no one would have come to that idea anyway. You could rather go to Essen-Altenessen to see more women covered in a headscarf than in all the cities of Turkey altogether.

With one prominent exception: Konya.

But now it seems like the times they are a-changing of all things under the rule of the AKP. Very interesting phenomenon. Seems like it's time to visit Mevlana's tomb again!