Meeting European Mustache Standards
Bus drivers have been forbidden to have mustaches by Metro Tourism, one of Turkey’s biggest transportation companies… Metro Tourism has 7,000 workers and though some of the bus drivers tried to resist the decision, arguing that their wives “would not allow it”, or that they have grown a moustache for 30 years …
General manager of the company, Sinan Solak, said the decision aims to improve customer satisfaction. “We are trying to reach European Union standards,” Solak said….
Metro Tourism said the prohibition did not include bus drivers who have gone on pilgrimage….
[JW: So religiously symbolic beards are OK, but “lower-class” signs of masculinity are not? So I suppose the bus stewardesses can wear headscarves as long as they are otherwise fashionably urban and wear makeup?]
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