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Barbers in Turkey are making easy money shaving off the beards of men who don’t want to be labelled as jihadists. Barbers in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, near the Syrian border, say business ...

“As he daubed my face with shaving cream, I realised that if my rivals were going to put a hit on me, this would surely be the moment they’d choose.” Mark Dapin heads to a barber for a Turkish shave.

Nihat Aram stands at the door of Turan Erkek Kuaförü, where he’s worked for 20 years, waiting for his next customer. In the barbershop behind him, down a few stairs, square black chairs are positioned ...