Introduction
Among the highly controversial themes that Orhan Pamuk explores in his novel “Snow”, such as political Islamism versus secularism, the installment of martial law, political exile, suicide, the writer also treats a current issue, very debated nowadays, which is the Islamist feminism, reflected through the resistance to the head scarf banning in public spaces. A cultural trend defending the values of the Islamic society arose in Turkey, as presented in Pamuk’s writing, which end-up in a girls’ suicidal wave, when confronted with the brutal opposition of secularism, which attempt to modernize Turkey by banning the head scarf wear in public ...
