"Fighting the Veil
Turkey is bitterly divided over government efforts to ease its headscarf ban. What will the courts do now?
It sounds so simple. Young women who choose to wear a headscarf, as some 60 percent do, cannot attend Turkish universities wearing this covering. The vast majority of Turks favor ending the restriction, and the recently re-elected AK Parti government—acting together with the nationalist opposition party, MHP—easily has the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to change the constitution. This week's parliamentary vote is just the beginning, however. Turkey's entrenched secularist minority is digging its heels in."
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