The radiance of sunrise, like a strip of voluptuous red gauze headscarf, floated and drifted in indistinct outer space.
Its main activity was to enforce a suitably dowdy dress code, ensuring that women tucked their hair under a headscarf and that a garment fully covered their back.
My headscarf had fallen down, so I pulled it up.
Mr Erdogan’s excuse is that his party was nearly banned in 2008 because of its efforts to lift the headscarf ban.
She donned a lime green coat and dress for the occasion, accessorising with a brightly patterned headscarf - and teaming the outfit with a black patent handbag and matching shoes.
Traditionally a figure called Babushka gave gifts to the children. Babushka is an old woman or grandmother with a headscarf tied under the chin.
Those battling to end restrictions on the headscarf are among the most vocal.
"My hair is too beautiful to hide under a headscarf," she said defiantly.
Fulla has dark hair, brown eyes and a small chest, and wears a white headscarf and a coat.
On the other side, Mr Erdogan's failure to deliver on issues dear to his pious constituents, such as easing the ban on the headscarf, allowed Felicity to snatch some voters away.
Marwa Sherbini, an Egyptian immigrant, was stabbed to death in a German courtroom by the man she had brought to trial for insulting her as a terrorist, because she wore a headscarf.
