Turkey's highest court has annulled a parliamentary reform allowing college students to wear Muslim headscarves.
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The government said the ban meant many girls were being denied an education.
But much of the secular establishment resisted the move, seeing it as a step towards allowing Islam to figure more largely in Turkish public life.
(BBC)
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