TURKEY:  Enter the Turban, And Trouble
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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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Turkey is engaged in an international battle to restrict the use of  the Bosphorus Straits - one of  the world's busiest waterways .
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ISTANBUL, Feb 4 (IPS) - Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party is  moving ahead with hotly contested constitutional amendments that  would lift the ban on headscarves at universities. Opponents see  it as a danger-laden step undermining the currently rigid secular  regime by introducing Islamic principles that may extend far  beyond higher learning.
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The debate over violence in Islamic cultures is swelling, with suggestions that the problem lies in the way Islam is being interpreted.
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ISTANBUL -- It's the head scarf, stupid. If it weren't for a three-foot-square piece of fabric, sometimes black and stark but more often fancy or lacy, rosy pink or flowery, Turkey's 42 million voters wouldn't be going to the polls Sunday.
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After Pope Benedict XVI infuriated the Islamic world with his remarks on holy war, Vatican officials scrambled to save his planned trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey. Two months later, there was the German pontiff on Thursday not only visiting Istanbul but praying beside an imam in the city's famous Blue Mosque.
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Benedict XVI wants to help restore Istanbul as the global center of  Orthodox Christianity. But the Turkish authorities worry what that  could mean for their country's secular identity
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Turkish religious movement manifests modern Islam and engages with Western ideas.
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Turkey has its endemic inflation under control and its growth rate is impressive, but experts say it must deal with a huge public deficit and knock its labyrinthine bureaucracy into shape if it gets the go-ahead Friday to start membership talks with the European Union.
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Turkey has been the most persistent supplicant at the European Union&#39;s gates and its passage through them will be protracted and tortuous.
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Turkey greets Pope Benedict on Tuesday for a four-day official visit, but the welcome will be distinctly cool due to simmering Muslim anger over his comments on Islam and his past opposition to Ankara's EU ambitions.
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Pope Benedict sets off on Tuesday on one of the most delicate trips by a Pontiff, visiting Turkey, where resentment is seething over his comments on Islam and opposition to Ankara's EU bid.
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On one hand there is the European Union, demanding Turkey reform its criminal code. On the other, a powerful group of conservative Muslims who insist such changes should include criminalizing adultery.
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Not for the first time, events in Iraq are straining relations between two traditionally close allies, Turkey and the United States.
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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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ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (IPS) - Despite controversy and fears for his safety, the  first visit of Pope Benedict XVI to a Muslim nation ended with a  series of conciliatory gestures toward Islam, and towards Turkey.
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Debate about reforms to Turkey&#39;s penal code, critical to the country&#39;s bid to join the European Union, has highlighted the relationship between the mainly-Muslim state and the 25-member bloc.