Army was the final Turkish institution in which women were prohibited from wearing headscarves Turkey will lift a ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country's armed forces, according to state media. The military was the final Turkish institution where women were prohibited from wearing the headscarf, after reforms by the Islamic-rooted government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that have allowed it to be worn in education, politics and the police.
Army was the final Turkish institution in which women were prohibited from wearing headscarves Turkey will lift a ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country's armed forces, according to state media. The military was the final Turkish institution where women were prohibited from wearing the headscarf, after reforms by the Islamic-rooted government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that have allowed it to be worn in education, politics and the police.
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