Cenk Uygur
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Fez Caps and No Alcohol? Turkish Airline's New Makeover
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March 3, 2013
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3:53Now Playing"When flight attendants first rode aboard Turkish Airlines in the late 1940s they wore cotton blouses under blue suits tailored to accentuate "the contours of the body," as a fashion history of the airline puts it. In the '60s and '70s the trend continued with fashions straight off the Paris runway, designed to show Turkey's European flair on its flagship airline."*
Turkish Airlines is going for a new, more conservative look for their flight attendants and may even be banning alcohol on some flights. This has some people worried about secular lines drawn in Turkey, and what going back to traditional Ottoman style could mean. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss.
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