Turkish Court Says Another Legal Change Is Needed To End Headscarf Ban

The Danistay, Turkey's top administrative court, ruled Tuesday that YOK, the body that supervises Turkish higher education, moved too quickly in implementing recently adopted Constitutional amendments allowing women students to wear Muslim headscarves at universities. Reuters today reports the court found that a regulation governing YOK still needs to be amended before the ban on headscarves can be ended. It is expected that the government will move to amend the YOK regulation if the Constitutional amendments survive a pending challenge in the Constitutional Court. (See prior posting.)