Headscarf

Morocco has banned the production and sale of burqa full-face Muslim veils, apparently for security reasons, media reports said Tuesday. “We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the kingdom,” the Le360 news site quoted a high-ranking interior ministry official as saying.

The mayor of Hungary's Asotthalom has announced that the village has adopted measures to defend its community and traditions.

These include banning "construction of mosques and the activity of muezzins, as well as the use of veils and headscarves like burqas, chadors and burkinis worn by Muslim women," AP reported on Friday.

About 50 people, mostly young and mostly women, are lying on the grass on the Kordon, the coastal front at the center of İzmir, reading their books. It is Oct. 30, İzmir's Book Reading Festival, a spontaneous festival that surfaced on social media. It is strikingly simple - with no activities or sponsors: "Just bring your book, a cushion and a cup of coffee."

The model adjusts her clothing, stares at the camera with a hint of a smile, holds her head high and the photographer starts snapping.

It is pleasing that there were massive reactions to the ugly attack experienced by nurse Ayşegül Terzi because of what she was wearing… This shows that, in our society, the culture of coexistence and diversity is developing now even though it is not yet adequate. 

Whether or not the attacker is schizophrenic is for the Forensic Medicine Institute to determine. 

A provincial police chief has been suspended for the handcuffing of female suspects wearing headscarves during raids launched as part of probes into the alleged "parallel structure," as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu ordered an investigation into recent incidents in which police officers' mistreatment of people have sparked outrage.

A provincial police chief has been suspended for the handcuffing of female suspects wearing headscarves during raids launched as part of probes into the alleged "parallel structure," as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu ordered an investigation into recent incidents in which police officers' mistreatment of people have sparked outrage.

The Council of State has refused an appeal for a stay of execution of an Education Ministry circular allowing the wearing of headscarves at secondary schools in Turkey. 

A former professor at Ege University in Turkey's Aegean city of ?zmir, who was jailed for preventing a female student with a headscarf from entering a faculty building, was released on April 16 after spending four-and-a-half months in jail. 

Turkish daily newspaper Sabah on March 11 published the "police statement" given by "Kabata? daughter-in-law" Zehra Develio?lu, the woman who claimed to have been attacked and harassed by a group of Gezi Park protesters in Istanbul's Kabata? district on June 1, 2013.