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Turkey :
YES
# This amendment is a troubling sign of the secular state’s eroding authority and the creeping Islamisation within Turkish society.
# Lifting the ban against women’s headscarves at universities will ultimately bring in Hezbollah, al-Qaeda terror and fundamentalism.
NO
# Fears of Turkey turning into an Islamic state is a bit far fetched. There are marginal Islamists in Turkey who dream of a ‘Sharia state,’ but the majority asks for religious freedom, not religious tyranny.
# The amendment is not speaking about forcing women to wear headscarves, it is only asking for equal rights for the women who wear them.
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Feb 11 2008
Ranchi,
India
This amendment will usher in a stricter form of Islam in the secular state. God save the women with uncovered heads.
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(Global Perspectives)
The fears of Turkey’s Islamisation is a bit far fetched but this country has surely moved eastwards from the European Union. there’s no way EU’s gonna accept Turkey as its member. So much for the sake of religion.
(Global Perspectives)
This is so disgusting that ppl go to Parliaments for amendment in fashion accessories. poor Turkish women :-(
(Global Perspectives)
Bad idea...Turkey had imposed the ban on headscarf in universities in late 90s because it was threatening country's secular character. It was not the face of modern Turkey.
(Local Perspectives)
New Law would bring pressure on women in Turkey. It will open the society for the entry of Hezbollah terror, Al Qaeda terror and fundamentalism in Turkey.
(Global Perspectives)
Islam is the lightning rod for all the fears and concerns. Let Turkey be enlighetened with the light of Islam.
(Global Perspectives)
The removal of ban on headscarf is being presented as a freedom to cover the head. It would be soon evolving into a ban on uncovered hair in Turkey.
(Global Perspectives)
You can find young women in jeans, fashinable T-shirts and Keds wear head scarves of all colors on the streets of Istanbul. Young observant women are more integrated than ever, nothing to be feared of Islamisation.
(Local Perspectives)
THis is the indication that Turkey is entering into the era of balance of liberal democracy, Islam and secularism. Western models of governance cannot show the way.
(Global Perspectives)
This is the first step of toward the forming of a repressive Islamic state.
(Global Perspectives)
Indication to Bush and company - this is the spread of Islam in Turkey. What can you do now?
(Global Perspectives)
People in western countries use Women as a means for vulgarity while Islam puts the emphasis on women's dignity. Turkey has taken the right decision.
(Global Perspectives)
Relax guys - this is just the preliminary approval from the parliament of the country. It will take time to be implemented.
(Local Perspectives)
This is wrong decision bexcause judiciary, military and university leaders in the country opposed the removal of the ban. They termed the removal of the ban as an attempt to overthrow the secularist constitution.
(Local Perspectives)
This is the matter of religious freedom not the issue of public debate. The government of Turkey is taking the right decision..
(Global Perspectives)
The country's military views the headscarf as a symbol of radical Islamism. The dropping the ban will become threat to modern Turkey in coming days.
(Local Perspectives)
Lifting the ban is a sign of Turkey's democratic maturity. See this dcision in progressive way.
(Global Perspectives)
Removal of the ban on head scarves for women is Turkey's just another step toward creating a modern Muslim state.
(Global Perspectives)
Turkey is a not a laicist state now. Laicism means the separation of religions from the state. Turkey would remain backward by separating religion and state because of the presure of some fundamentalists in the country.
(Global Perspectives)
It is a step in backward direction for Turkey. This is an indication of exploitation of women and mixing the state and religion as in several Muslim countries. It is islamisation of secular Turkey.
(Global Perspectives)
Wake up Turkey, all the achievements you have gained by keeping the Islamic yoke away with the counter-reform of AKP. If a civilization breaches the dogmas of religion, it paves way to great scientific and cultural development.
(Global Perspectives)
Turkey can no longer live as secular nation with this shame. Removal of the ban will give upper hand to the supporters of the lifting the headscarf ban.
(Global Perspectives)
Turkey is a secular country with predominant Muslim population. It is seeking to join the European Union but now it has taken step in backward direction. Turkey should froget the EU dream now.
(Global Perspectives)
It is the end of the suffering of Muslim girls at university gates across Turkey.
(Global Perspectives)
Hey Mariam, Turkey is not opening the door of freedom but shutting it for Muslim girls. In Muslim states, brothers shave heads of their sisters to force them to wear head scarves. It would start in Turkey too.
(Global Perspectives)
Will it help in strengthening democracy and freedom of religion, or it will help in consolidating traditionalist Islamic practices in Turkey? This is a big question indeed.
(Global Perspectives)
People of every region should have the right to dress as they want. Restricting liberties can do only bad for the country. Its really a progressive step.
(Global Perspectives)
Needless debate going on here.. How can anybody say that those who wear the headscarf are not secular?
(Global Perspectives)
This is the first step in the radicalisation of Turkey’s secular society. The Turkish government is sowing the seeds of a radical Islamic tide that would follow immediately after the lifting of the ban, if it at all happens. This was not the vision of the great Kemal Ataturk. Secular Turks need to protest this as soon as possible. Turkey is the light in the Islamic society and there is every chance that this great country would be drawn into unnecessary religious controversies which could potentially destabilise the region further.
(Global Perspectives)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk made sure that Turkey doesn’t become one of the Islamist states that lie south of its borders. The Arabia and the Shiite Persia turning radical Islam.
The legacy and the ideology of Kemal Atatürk is still supreme. The Turkish Army is a secular entity and swears by Kemal Atatürk’s ideology and the set up of the fabric of the Turkish state.
The removal of the headscarf ban must not be viewed in isolation but in a broad spectrum. In India it is very much allowed, but that doesn’t mean that it secularism has ended (or for that matter never took off) in India.
Many Turkish nationals have been in Germany (major) and many other parts of Europe. I reckon that this move is to respect individual religious beliefs and starkly different from the French Sikh’s turban in France.
The legacy and the ideology of Kemal Atatürk is still supreme. The Turkish Army is a secular entity and swears by Kemal Atatürk’s ideology and the set up of the fabric of the Turkish state.
The removal of the headscarf ban must not be viewed in isolation but in a broad spectrum. In India it is very much allowed, but that doesn’t mean that it secularism has ended (or for that matter never took off) in India.
Many Turkish nationals have been in Germany (major) and many other parts of Europe. I reckon that this move is to respect individual religious beliefs and starkly different from the French Sikh’s turban in France.
(Global Perspectives)
Yes, this is great news! This will lead to full blown, open conflict with the secular Turkish army and the government! It won’t be long before either the Islamists win power or the Army moves in - either way the EU will reject Turkey’s membership application! A win/win situation for everyone.
(Global Perspectives)
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