"Alarm spreads over Turkey's troubles
By M K Bhadrakumar
The Turkish constitutional court's verdict last Thursday overturning the attempt by the government in Ankara to create a legal basis to lift the ban on women wearing headscarves from attending universities, sets the stage for a battle royal between the ruling party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey's secular elite comprising the judiciary, military and the 'Kemalists'."
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