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[roseandchan]

in iran they have to wear the scarf and full dress. i have it on good authority that when it gets very hot in the summer they wear nothing underneath.

[denizaksulu]

i have a head scarf for my friends muslim events, just respect for their culture, like not wearing shorts and covering your shoulders in a church. i think it should be personal choice after all they don't say we can't wear jeans ect.

Oh no ... Wearing scarves is a social taboo again ....

Fears for Turkish ruling party as court overturns headscarf law

Robert Tait in Istanbul

The Guardian, Friday June 6 2008

Turkey's highest court yesterday overturned a politically controversial law allowing women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university, dealing a blow to the country's Islamist-leaning government and its chances of survival.

In a decision with significant implications for Turkey's future, the constitutional court upheld an appeal from opposition parties that the law - passed by parliament in February - posed a threat to its 85-year-old secular system.

The headscarf issue has become one of the most highly charged in Turkish politics, with the ruling justice and development party (AKP) seeing it as a question of religious freedom, while opponents portray it as a potential gateway to a more Islamic society. Hijab-wearers have complained of being expelled from classes by professors, while others have worn wigs to get around the ban.

The ruling was a setback for the AKP, which is embroiled in a separate case - also before the constitutional court - to outlaw the party and ban its officials from politics for alleged anti-secular activity.

"This is the harshest decision the court could have reached," said Soli Ozel, an analyst at Istanbul's Bilgi university. "It gives us a clear sense of how the court is going to vote on the closure case."

Banning the party could plunge Turkey's political system into turmoil, while further jeopardising its already fraught attempt to join the European Union. The European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, has warned that the country's application could be frozen if the AKP is outlawed.

The AKP has won over many European officials by espousing a democratising agenda seen as key to Turkey's EU membership.

But its domestic critics argue that the party's liberal rhetoric conceals an agenda of imposing an Islamic society by stealth.


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Its only in Turkey where you can have a headscarf and a headscarf. On my recent visit, I saw these strange creatures wearing their headscarfs and thought 'who were these hydro-cephalic creatures'. What a weird sight it was. They are crazy. If it is their own free choice, it is even crazier.

[roseandchan]

friend took family to hotel pool at the weekend, the turkish mainlanders were in the pool wearing head scarfs and full dress, they were amazed but the kids found it funny. my scarf was a present from a friend as i had to borrow one when it was her sisters funeral .

[repulsewarrior]

religion should be kept in the bedroom, just like sex, what you believe is a private matter.

on the other hand, there is one God.

the building of mosques, churches or synagogues is and should be no different with this reasoning.

[roseandchan]

how do you know there is? only joking lol. i think the problems will come with the planning department because who ever is in charge has the final say. even in the uk, you can sway them.

[xxNilxx]

Muslims should wear no headscarve in Cyprus... If they do they wear it in the Greek Republic of Southern Cyprus or the go home

[Feisty]

Do you come with a translator?

Muslims should wear no headscarve in Cyprus... If they do they wear it in the Greek Republic of Southern Cyprus or the go home

[xxNilxx]

Do you not speak english??

i said... WE DONT WANT PEOPLE WHO WEAR HEADSCARVES IN NORTH CYPRUS.

[roseandchan]

well i can understand the post. have you been eating dictionarys again?

[denizaksulu]

Do you not speak english??

i said... WE DONT WANT PEOPLE WHO WEAR HEADSCARVES IN NORTH CYPRUS.

Hello Nil. I will second that. The only scarves they should wear are the Yemeni's They are traditional especially with oya. (Oyali yemeni)