DEAR TRAVELERS TO TURKEY: PLEASE DON’T COME VISIT UNTIL YOU’VE UNDERSTOOD THESE 8 THINGS

You don’t have to wear a headscarf. While most Turks are Muslim, it’s a secular, not Muslim state. That means there’s no dress code set by the government and women are free to choose what they wear. As a result, Islamic dress styles range from expensively fashionable designer sunglasses perched atop the latest in fresh-off-the-runway headscarves, to the head-to-toe black numbers most often featured in news reports about this side of the world.