PBS TV Tuesday: Wide Angle- Turkey, Islam, Fashion

PBS TV Tuesday: Wide Angle- Turkey, Islam, Fashion

Wideangle: Turkey's Tigers

For years, Turkey has been run by a stridently secular business and political elite struggling to align itself with the Western world, while its pious Muslims have been pushed to the political and economic fringes. But now even the most devout Muslims have shifted their gaze from the East to the West -- and are ascending in Turkish society through both the ballot box and big business. Turkey's Tigers captures this modern, unexpected face of Islam unseen in American media.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/

A growing class of devout Muslims are embracing Western-style capitalism and ascending in Turkish society -- both in business and at the ballot box.

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