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Turkey's highest court has annulled a parliamentary reform allowing college students to wear Muslim headscarves.
BBC reports that the Constitutional Court said that a decision in February to ease a ban on scarves being worn on campuses violated the constitution's secular principles.
The government said the ban meant many girls were being denied an education.
But much of the secular establishment resisted the move, seeing it as a step towards allowing Islam to figure more largely in Turkish public life.
// 05.06.2008 18:00
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/world/2008/4144.shtml
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