The hijab (etc) is immodest

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I remember about 20 years ago, Erdogan announced that he wanted to make the hijab compulsory, and I saw on the news that millions of people took to the streets (ithink in Istanbul) and said they did not want the hijab.

But yesterday and today in Tehran, only a few thousand people came to the street to protest the murder of Mehsa (Jina) and to protest the hijab law!
The secular people of Tehran are very lazy, but the secular people of Turkey immediately come to the streets by the millions and give the message that we do not want hijab!

You are talking about the Gezi protest. I was there it happened in 2013. In fact he wanted to destroy a historic park near the İstiklal Street in İstanbul to make it into a shopping mall complex (or something like that - In order to be able to make more money to spend on another useless project that would further enrich some of the pious businessman working hand in hand with his political party) and he failed. The ruling İslamist party in Turkey has much subtler ways of gradually promoting the Hijab in order to be able to use it as a way of rallying more voters. They can be compared to the rule of Modi in India. The ruling A.K. Party is a so called “traditionalist” movement that is nothing like a populist movement to the core. The foreign parallels of Mr. Erdogan are Victor Orban in Hungrary of Mr. Vladimir Putin in Russia. But as you said, we won’t let him do whatever he likes.

You said right. The demonstrations were carried out in year 2013