Secular Turkey in Eclipse

Turkey has lifted a ban on female students wearing headscarves in schools in a move secularists have described as fresh evidence of the government pushing an Islamist agenda. Education has been one of the main battlegrounds between religious conservatives who form the bedrock of support for the AK party of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and liberal opponents who accuse him of imposing Islamic values by stealth. Prime Minister Erdogan said "Let's allow everyone to dress their child as they wish" and that the move was taken in response to popular demand.
Turkey is nominally a secular state with the republic's first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk having created politically liberal state institutions which many say are under threat from a new generation of more strictly religious politicians.

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