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Article: TURKEY: HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY DIVIDES NATION'S UNIVERSITIES
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 17, 2008
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Hilmi Toros
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-17-2008
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Mar. 14, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Female students
wearing headscarves may now enter the campus of Turkey's Sakarya
University, due to recent constitutional amendments lifting the ban
on headscarves in Turkish universities.
The ban had been in place since 1988. While students may now
wear the scarves to Sakarya University, which is some 200
kilometers from the Istanbul, those wearing similar headscarves are
still barred from Gaziantep University in the southeast.
Administrators there are arguing that the constitutional amendments
may be "unconstitutional."
At Sakarya University, administrators say the new amendment
enhances ...
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