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Turkish women college students wearing head scarves
Turkey: The Headscarf Ban and the Struggle Over Secularism
June 5, 2008 1704 GMT
Turkey's high court on June 5 restored a ban on women wearing the Islamic headscarf in universities, a victory for the ultrasecular Kemalist establishment over the ruling Justice and Development Party.

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