We allow it in a Christian Country

Court annuls Turkish scarf reform


Turkey's highest court has blocked government moves to allow college students to wear Muslim headscarves. The Constitutional Court said that a vote by parliament to ease a ban on scarves being worn on campuses violated the constitution's secular principles.

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Fair play to the British?

[Haqa]

On the contrary, fair play to the Turks, the British could learn a little from them.

The Turks know how important it is to take a hard line with signs of religious extremism of any kind.

H.

[poppy]

this is them fighting to hold back fundamentalists, I think they are doing a reasonably good job. Turkey could so easily become another Iran if the government just let things slide.