24/05/2011
The issue is gaining traction but may not be addressed until after the June 12th elections.
By Alakbar Raufoglu for Southeast European Times -- 24/05/11
Merve Kavakci Islam was elected to parliament in 1999, but was prevented from taking her parliamentary oath because she wears a headscarf. Then Kavakci's political party, Virtue [Fazilet Partisi], was shut down for violating the secularist articles of the constitution and her Turkish citizenship was revoked, banning her from politics for five years. ...more...
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