Headscarf Issue Rears Its Head Again

January 2008 | Ratings Update

The Turkish government is once again pushing forward on a bill to ease the country's headscarf ban in public institutions, a move likely to aggravate tensions between the ruling Justice and Development Party and secular institutions such as the military. While the bill has been amended to only ease the restrictions in universities, and only then for students who wear a headscarf that still reveals the whole face, the military has already made veiled comments asserting its opposition to the move. While we do not believe that the bill will lead to a constitutional or political crisis, the elevated tensions

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