Turkey at Odds over Headscarf Ban
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A move to lift a ban on young women students wearing headscarves at universities has renewed the battle between secularists and the government
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The European Union's decision to  partially suspend Turkey's entry talks will cause problems for  the Muslim nation, but Ankara will still press ahead on its  path to membership, a senior ruling party lawmaker said on  Tuesday.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown  out of Turkey&#39;s parliament for wearing a Muslim-style  headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious  rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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ANKARA, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thanks to an alliance between the ruling Justice  and Development (AK) and Nationalist Action (MH) parties, the  Turkish Grand National Assembly has approved legislation to lift  the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf for female students at  universities.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Friday he backed the Islamist-rooted government's proposal to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities, a move opposed by the secular establishment.
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Thousands of secular Turks rallied on  Saturday against a plan by the government to allow women  students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university, a move  they say will usher in a stricter form of Islam in Turkey.
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Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.
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Turkish lawmakers voted Saturday for a second and final time in favour of a constitutional amendment package to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in universities, parliament speaker Koksal Toptan said.
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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan admits speaking about the possibility of lifting headscarf restrictions in Turkey.
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The Turkish government says it will change a controversial law restricting freedom of expression.
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The country's leading secular opposition party has vowed to appeal this weekend's decision to lift a head-scarf ban to Turkey's top court.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown out of Turkey's parliament for wearing a Muslim-style headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities. Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its landslide election victory in July.  The separation of religion and state enshrined in the current constitution is one of the key issues in the debate.
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Turkey's leader, a devout Muslim, talks a lot about morality these days. It's language that alarms secular Turks, who fear the government plans to make religion a part of their lives.
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Turkey's pro-secular president blocked a measure Monday that would have allowed the Islamic-leaning government to hold a referendum on a new presidential voting system on the same day as general elections next month.
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Turkey must lift a ban on headscarves at  university as part of democratic reforms aimed at European  Union accession, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Saturday.
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Turks voted for a new parliament on Sunday, faced with a choice between the ruling AK Party's pro-business, religiously conservative policies and nationalist rivals keen to keep Islam out of politics.