Depreciating home values and a slower pace of home-buying is a worrying factor to many in the economic recovery.

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It's just that because the majority of Turkish women do not wear the headscarf and because the public has been founded, you know, on very strict secular values, the elites of the - especially the secular elite - feels that this is an very important factor.

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