Abstract: Orhan Pamuk's Snow narrates a terrible issue: In 1980, in Kars, a group of girl students were tortured by the governmental ban of scarf, and began to commit suicide one by one... Through discussions of modern Turkey' history and the liberation of woman, this article tries to reveal the issue's realistic prototype, historical reasons and its nature. Finally, the analysis of a “Scarf Girl” named Kadife reveals the difficult situation of Turkish woman between Kemal secularism and Islam. Also talked about is Pamuk's basic attitude towards the “scarf and suicide” issue.