My Way News - Turkey fails to resolve dispute over head scarves
My Way News reports: "Turkey's governing party failed to win key opposition support on Wednesday for plans to lift a ban on the wearing of Islamic head scarves at universities, a deeply divisive issue in a country with secular laws and a Muslim population [...] Most of Turkey's 75 million people are Muslim, but staunch secularists see the head scarf as a symbol of political Islam and consider any attempt to allow it in schools as an attack on Turkey's secular laws. There also are fears that lifting the ban would create pressure on all female students to cover themselves."