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Q: A headscarf is ...

a) ...a religious symbol.
b) ...a political symbol.
c) ...a socioeconomic symbol.
d) ...something to put on when you're having a bad hair day.
e) ...all of the above.

The ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a landslide victory in last summer’s elections, but when they tried to overturn the law banning headscarves in schools and government offices they were accused by the secular opposition of trying to Islamize Turkey in violation of the Constitution. A court battle is scheduled for this fall.

Headscarf