Turkey lifts ban on women wearing Islamic head scarf Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing the Islamic head scarf in state institutions on Tuesday, ending a decades-old restriction. The new rules, which will not apply to the judiciary or the military, were published in the Official Gazette and took immediate effect, Reuters reported. The ban has kept many women from joining the public work force. However, secularists say the abolition is evidence of the government pushing an Islamic agenda in the majority Muslim, but constitutionally secular, nation.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:07:26 +0000
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