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Turkish female soldiers can now wear headscarves

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Published on February 24, 2017 with No Comments

Turkey will allow female soldiers to wear a headscarf with their uniforms, defence ministry officials said on Wednesday, a shift for a military that has traditionally seen itself as a guardian of secularism. Although a Muslim majority country, Turkey is officially secular and headscarves were long banned in the civil service and in universities, something President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party has now overturned.

 

 

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