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Article: High court in Turkey rules against headscarves.(AROUND THE WORLD)(Brief article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Turkey's high court has ruled that a recent legal change allowing Muslim women to wear headscarves at universities is unconstitutional.
The Constitutional Court said that the change violated principles of secularism set forth in Turkey's constitution. Headscarves had been banned from campuses in the 1990s.
Many people see the decision as a ...