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Court annuls scarf law

Monday, 09 June 2008

Turkish court annuls scarf law at university The Turkish Constitutional Court issued a ruling Thursday annulling the law, which allowed the wearing of Muslim head scarves in the country's universities.

The Court states that the law allowing the scarves was in contradiction with the secular foundations of the Turkish Republic.

The law came into being in February 2008 when the Turkish President Abdullah Gül signed the constitutional changes approved earlier by the Parliament, allowing the wearing of the scarves by the Turkish women in universities.

The changes were met with violent protests in defense of the secular Turkish state on part of large segments of Turkey's society.

The initiative for the changes came from the ruling Justice and Development Party with the wives of Gül and the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appearing in public wearing the Muslim head scarves.

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Nihaal said:

	These people make Allah very angry. They claim to be muslim but there actions are totally contrary to islam. If Allah hasent written guidance for them then they should be punished in this world as well as in the hereafeter.
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Firena said:

	I am not impressed with most of Turkey, never was. When the day has come for muslims to imitate and stoop to non muslims, know that we are nearing the END times. What's wrong with the scarves and who wants to wear it? Turkey value the EU membership more than it's religion (if they are mostly muslims anways).
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