Sunday, February 03, 2008

125,000 secular Turks protest over Islamic head scarf - International Herald Tribune

"125,000 secular Turks protest over Islamic head scarf

ANKARA, Turkey: Some 125,000 flag-waving Turks, mostly women, denounced the Islamic-rooted government over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities — a move the foreign minister said would expand Turkish freedoms."

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