Turkey announced today (September 30, 2013) it would lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in most public offices, following other measures critics say are aimed at Islamizing the staunchly secular country, the AFP (Agence France Press) website reports.
In a major speech to introduce political reforms, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that -- with few exceptions -- civil servants would be allowed to wear headscarves after a longstanding ban is overturned.
The ban will remain in effect for judges, prosecutors, police, and military personnel.
Secularists see the headscarf as a symbol of defiance against the strict separation of state and religion -- a basic tenet of modern Turkey.
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