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Headscarf ban in Turkey schools lifted
Thursday November 29, 2012 03:08:30 PM,
Agencies
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Madrid:
Stating that one should be allowed to dress as per his or her
wish, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced
to lift the ban on female students wearing headscarves in schools
providing religious education.
Under the latest regulation,
announced on Tuesday and going into effect from the 2013-2014
academic year, pupils at regular schools will also be able to wear
headscarves in Koran lessons.
Erdogan said the reform, which also ends a requirement for pupils
to wear uniform, was taken in response to public demand.
“Let’s allow everyone to dress their child as they wish, according
to their means,” news agency Reuters quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan was speaking at a news conference in Madrid on
Tuesday.
“These are all steps taken as a
result of a demand", he added.
Rivalry between religious and secular elites is one of the major
fault lines in Turkish public life.
Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party has tamed the influence of the
military - the self-appointed guardians of secularism since the
modern republic was founded in 1923 - over the past decade, but he
denies an Islamist agenda.
Last month the military top brass
attended a reception in the presidential palace alongside the
headscarved wives of the president and prime minister, something
that until recently would have been unthinkable.
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