Spiegel -  It was an image full of symbolism. On the night in July when his party won the general elections, Prime Minister Tecep Tayyip Erdogan stepped in front of the cameras side-by-side with his Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül and their two wives, both wearing headscarves. The message was clear: Here are the two most powerful couples in Turkey. They are conservative and they are religious — and their comfort with showing it amounts to nothing less than a silent revolution in secular Turkey.

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