"Plan to lift headscarf ban angers Turkish secular elite
Yigal Schleifer in Istanbul
Turkey is to end a longstanding ban on the wearing of headscarves in universities, signalling a potential threat to the country's secularism.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has Islamist roots, proposed the move as it put the finishing touches to a new draft constitution, setting the scene for heated debate between the centre-right Government and Turkey's secular elite. The ban is seen by its supporters as one of the pillars of Turkish secularism and a firewall against creeping Islamism. "
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