A dean at a Turkish university was stabbed last week after arguing with students about the government’s enforcement of a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities. Zekeriya Beyaz, dean of the school ...

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 ...

Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Islamic headscarves in universities, despite the fierce opposition of the secular ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, Iran — 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 ...