ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament lifted a ban on Saturday on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a landmark decision that some Turks fear will undermine the foundations ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has accused opponents of the Islamic-style headscarf for women of trying to sow division in secular but predominantly Muslim Turkey. Turkey's ...

Turkish feminists largely support measures that allow women to wear headscarves in schools and at work - Copyright CNS/AFP - Turkish feminists largely support ...

The issue of whether girls should be allowed to attend public schools in the north while wearing hijabs returned to the fore on Tuesday, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ trade union ...

The Turkish government has official lifted the daily reciting national allegiance in elementary schools and headscarf ban in the state offices. New regulations were published in the Official Gazette ...

Women officers, non-commissioned officers and students serving in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) will be allowed to wear headscarves. According to state-run Anadolu Agency’s report, the Ministry of ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory ...

Women line up to vote for the presidential election in a polling station at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 5, 2024. Iran held a runoff presidential election on Friday ...

On Sunday, June 16, with Istanbul’s Taksim Square in a fog of tear gas five miles away, thousands of supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gathered on seaside fair grounds to hear their embattled prime ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory ...

When you think of gender-related movements in Turkey, you think of the Turkish headscarf laws. Until 2013, women working in the public sector and students in universities were not allowed to wear the ...

June 5, 2008, 1:48 PM EDT / Source: Reuters Turkey's top court annulled a reform on Thursday that would allow students to wear Muslim headscarves at university, a serious blow to the ruling party's ...