Financial Times: Turkey set to drop university headscarf ban
Turkey was last night braced for moves to end a controversial ban on women wearing headscarves at universities after the government won the support of a key opposition party for the move, which is likely to enrage the country’s secular establishment.
The governing Justice and Development party (AKP), which has its roots in political Islam, struck a deal with Turkey’s nationalist opposition party to lift the constitutional ban on the headscarf on campus.
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