"Headscarf controversy divides Turkey’s universities
By Hilmi Toros
Updated Apr 2, 2008, 02:57 pm Email this article
ISTANBUL, Turkey (IPS/GIN) - Female students wearing headscarves may now enter the campus of Turkey’s Sakarya University, due to recent constitutional amendments lifting the ban on headscarves in Turkish universities.
The ban had been in place since 1988. While students may now wear the scarves to Sakarya University, which is some 125 miles from the Istanbul, those wearing similar headscarves are still barred from Gaziantep University in the southeast. Administrators there are arguing that the constitutional amendments may be “unconstitutional.”"
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