ISTANBUL, Turkey — For years Zeynep Nur Incekara, a young medical student at Istanbul University, attended classes in a hat, or sometimes a wig — substitutes for the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, that ...

The days of Muslim university students in Turkey wearing wigs over their headscarves and covering up with oversize baseball caps might be numbered. In response to a letter of complaint written by ...

Exiled Egyptian opposition activist Ghada Naguib was arrested by plainclothed officers in Turkey on Monday without being given a reason, her son told Middle East Eye, warning she may be deported to ...

Erkan's field diary discusses Turkey's lifting of the headscarf (Hijab) ban in his country. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building ...

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What could be more normal than that a woman who wears an Islamic headscarf is a minister. The population of Turkey is 98 percent Muslim. We hope that women who wear Islamic headscarves will be seen in ...

Kazakhstan Hijab Ban: Most non-Muslim liberal nations do not impose restrictions on religious practices and beliefs and Muslim women in these countries freely practice their religion, including ...