Turkey may be in the grips of a heated domestic political agenda, while Recep Tayyip Erdogan assumes his new position as the country’s first directly elected president and former Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu takes over as prime minister, but a women-only beach — opened Aug. 16 in the internationally renowned Mediterranean resort town of Antalya — is also making headlines and fueling a controversy among Turks who are increasingly divided politically and socially.
The controversy is not independent from the rise of Erdogan, who paraded his Islamist credentials once again while he was readying to be sworn in as Turkey’s 12th president earlier this week.
