Turkish govt and opposition agree to ease scarf ban
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Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party  and a key opposition party agreed on Thursday to cooperate to  lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in  universities, a move sure to anger the secular elite.
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PARIS, Aug 30  - The French government said on Monday it planned to go ahead with the introduction this week of a ban on Islamic headscarves and other religious insignia in schools, despite an ultimatum from extremists holding two French journalists
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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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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 elite.
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Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved on Saturday controversial constitutional changes aimed at lifting a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf in universities, the assembly's speaker said.
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Pakistan's government and pro-Taleban tribal militants sign a peace deal aimed at ending years of unrest.
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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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Turkey's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment that would end a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, despite public protests.
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PARIS A fragile truce between the government and Islamic organizations in France over the country&#39;s ban of Muslim head scarves in public schools appeared to hold Wednesday even though five female students have been expelled from schools for refusing to
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Turkeyâs parliament took a major step toward lifting a ban against womenâs head scarves in universities, setting the stage for a final showdown with the secular elite.
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Turkey's devout Muslim prime minister said Wednesday that the constitution should be changed to remove a ban at universities on head scarves, the most potent symbol of the national divide over the role of religion in politics.
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Turkey&#39;s ruling party and the main opposition party said on Tuesday they had agreed to present key amendments to the penal code as a joint proposal, signaling that controversial plans to ban adultery may be dropped.
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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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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.
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Turkey&#39;s parliament last night bowed to European Union demands and passed a liberalising penal code which should open the way to talks with Ankara on EU membership.
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Turkey's military has a tradition of interfering in politics, even staging several coups in past decades. But on Wednesday, the chief of the secular armed forces kept a low profile on one of his country's most explosive issues: the Islamic head scarf.
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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.