Turkey: Secularism vs. Islamism leads to constitutional crisis Posted on July 3rd
Turkey: Secularism vs. Islamism leads to constitutional crisis As the op-ed columnist Yavuz Baydar puts it, writing in the Istanbul-based daily Today's Zaman, there is "[n]ever a dull moment in this country." Umit Bektas/ReutersIn January of this year, a group of Turkish women in Ankara demonstrated in favor of the lifting of a long-standing ban on the wearing of the traditional Muslim headscarf by women in universities in Turkey; the national parliament overturned that law in February Baydur refers to the fact that, yesterday, two rather dramatic - and, for some Turks and foreign observers, alarming - developments whose ramifications could be both political and legal took place in Turkey: First, the country's Constitutional Court decided to accept an indictment against the ruling party of Turkish Prime ... Tagged as World News Review | No Comments » | Continue
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