Turkish PM says wants to lift headscarf ban
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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 ruling party agreed with an opposition party Monday to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities of the mainly Muslim but secular nation.
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Turkey's parliament voted in a first round on Thursday to change the constitution to lift a ban on women students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a measure opposed by the secular elite.
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Turkey's Alevi Muslims have been branded "pagans" for their musical ceremonies and liberal customs but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is seeking their votes as his party reaches out beyond its devout Sunni Muslim base.
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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 prime minister on Friday laid out a policy vision for the next five years that focuses on pursuing European Union membership and defending the state's secular and democratic principles.
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PARIS: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview published on Thursday that he is looking to President Jacques Chirac to reassure Ankara over France's backing for its bid to join the European ...
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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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Turkeyâs prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked for help in the struggle against Kurdish separatists in Iraq.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan   repeated on Wednesday his criticism of comments made by Pope   Benedict about Islam that sparked Muslim protests and said even   a politician would not have spoken in such a way.
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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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Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities.
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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's parliament voted on Saturday to lift a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a landmark decision that some Turks say will undermine the foundations of the secular state.
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Turkish MPs defy the president by reaffirming their support for constitutional reforms, amid tensions over Islam.
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He's a devout Muslim whose wife wears an Islamic headscarf in a nation where religious attire is banned from government buildings. He is also a champion of reforms needed for Turkey to qualify for European Union membership.
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Turkey's PM returns from talks to a warm welcome and says Turkey will change markedly with EU entry in sight.