![]() Complicating matters even further is that İpek's younger sister, Kadife, is considered the leader of the Kars headscarf girls. Of course, Islam strictly prohibits suicide, so no one is quite sure why these girls would kill themselves. Given that Kars is a poor city with little apparent future, this is a tremendous sacrifice. Turkey's strict secularism forbade female students from donning headscarves in class since many refused to take them off, they were denied an education. ![]() Each of the suicides was known for wearing a headscarf, in accordance with Muslim tradition. Kars is a poor town facing a crisis in which religious teenage girls have been committing suicide. He finds out that İpek's separated from Muhtar (who's become an Islamist), which at first seems a cause for much rejoicing. Ka's more or less abandoned politics, preferring his own artistic dreamscape to the world's reality. Ka finds himself going to the remote eastern city of Kars to reconnect with the beautiful İpek, a woman he'd loved ardently but lost to a fellow named Muhtar, during his student days. ![]() ![]() Orhan Pamuk's Snow tells the story of Ka, a lonely poet returning to his Turkish homeland after long years of exile. ![]()
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