Turkey's AKP Will Not Push For End To Headscarf Ban

Time reported last week that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided that it will not, at least for now, press for new legislation to end the country's long-standing ban on women wearing Muslim headscarves at universities. The decision was made known by Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek on Thursday, one day after Turkey's Constitutional Court reduced government funding to the AKP-- but did not dissolve the party-- because of its anti-secularist agenda. (See prior posting.)