Secular Turks rally against Muslim headscarf reform
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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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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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Dozens of Muslims demonstrated inside a historic church against Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit here next week as an Islamist party called a large weekend rally to show the pontiff is &quot;unwelcome&quot; in the country.
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Following a wave of protests against   Pope Benedict's remarks on Islam, Muslim intellectuals in   Turkey are asking what he really thinks about their faith and   what long-term consequences his views will have.
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Turkish women are on the street protesting as never before as the fight to preserve Turkey's secular status gives them a louder political voice that could translate into parliamentary seats in this summer's elections.
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Despite secularist fears of its Islamist roots, Erdogan's party gets even more support than it did five years ago
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Crowds have begun converging in central Istanbul for a demonstration called by a small Islamist party against the visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI, which starts on Tuesday.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities.
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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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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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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to headscarf wearers and headscarf opponents to understand the Turkish debate on Muslim dress.
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Turkish MPs defy the president by renewing support for constitutional reforms, amid tensions over Islam.
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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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Thousands of supporters of  the Islamist group Hamas protested in the Gaza Strip on Friday  against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad  that sparked Muslim outrage two years ago.
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More than 20,000 Muslims in Istanbul  on Sunday held the biggest protest so far against Pope  Benedict's controversial visit to Turkey this week.
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Some 20,000 Muslims held a "Pope,  don't come" rally in Istanbul on Sunday in a peaceful protest  against Pope Benedict's visit to Turkey this week.
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Thousands of flag-waving protesters filled streets in yet another city in Turkey on Saturday, accusing the government of trying to impose Islamic values on the country's Western way of life.