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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Khaleej Times Online - Turkey's pains of modernisation

"Turkey's pains of modernisation
By Kaya Arslan (Life)

15 March 2008


IT WAS a tense week for the Turkish parliament during the headscarf amendment debates. Despite massive demonstrations organised by secular Kemalist institutions, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) took action to resolve the deep-rooted headscarf dilemma in Turkey by ending the headscarf ban in universities."

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