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Turkish PM says Headscarf Opponents Divide Nation (Asharq Alawsat Newspaper)

"Turkish PM says Headscarf Opponents Divide Nation

03/02/2008

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has accused opponents of the Islamic-style headscarf for women of trying to sow division in secular but predominantly Muslim Turkey.

Turkey's Islamist-rooted government has come under intense pressure from secular opponents, including army generals, over its plan to lift a decades-old ban on women students wearing the headscarf at university."

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