Sunday, July 15, 2007

Turkey PM stops short at promising headscarf ban end - Culture - Middle East Times

"Turkey PM stops short at promising headscarf ban end
AFP

July 15, 2007

SCARFED SUPPORTERS: Women listen to Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a rally July 14, 2007 by his ruling AK Party, campaigning for the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Ankara.
(REUTERS)
ANKARA -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey still needed time to achieve a compromise that would lead to the lifting of a much-disputed headscarf ban in universities, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday."

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