Turkish parliament adopts headscarf reform
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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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TURKEYâS parliament met in emergency session yesterday to approve an urgent package of reforms expected to boost the countryâs chances of starting membership talks with the European Union.
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Turkey is navigating between the forces pulling it closer to Islam and the institutions that safeguard its secularism.
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Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling party, thanks to a deal with the nationalist opposition, on Tuesday submitted to parliament a draft amendment to allow the Islamic headscarf in universities, making good on a six-year-old electoral promise.
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The Turkish parliament early Thursday adopted a constitutional amendment allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities, a controversial move that still had to be ratified, assembly deputy speaker Nevzat Pakdil announced.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, with a fresh election triumph under his belt, said he would press on with reforms to turn his secular, Muslim country into a modern democracy on a par with its European neighbors.
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ANKARA, Turkey - A special session of parliament approved legal reforms Sunday aimed at opening the way for Turkey to begin membership talks with the European Union after the governing party dropped a proposal to criminalize adultery, a plan that had upset EU leaders.    The vote came before an Oct...
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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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A bill that would lift a decades-old ban on women wearing head scarves at universities was submitted to parliament on Tuesday, worrying secular Turks who fear the government is raising the profile of Islam.
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Turkeyâs parliament voted to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university.
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Jordan's parliament moved Sunday to tighten state control over mosque preachers, amending legislation that aims to prevent the kingdom's mosques from being used to propagate extremist ideas.
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Turkey has become more democratic in recent years, and the competing forces of the religious and secular have burst into full view.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was quoted in the Financial Times on Wednesday as saying he wanted to lift the ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities as part of a planned constitutional overhaul.
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Turkey's parliament approved proposals Saturday to scale down police powers and improve conditions of detainees before a crucial European Union summit that will decide whether to start membership negotiations with the largely Muslim country.
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Turkish lawmakers Tuesday began a decisive round of voting in presidential elections expected to install Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the secular republic&#39;s first head of state with an Islamist past.
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Lawmakers voted early Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment allowing female students to enter universities wearing Islamic head scarves Â a move some Turks see as a threat to the traditional separation of church and state.
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected president by Turkey's parliament on Tuesday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history.