July 16, 2004

Court Upholds Ban on Head Scarves in Turkey

By AISHA LABI

A Turkish medical student has lost her bid to be able to wear a head scarf while pursuing studies at the University of Istanbul. In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the European Court of Human Rights ruled last month that Leyla Sahin's rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion were not violated by Turkey's ban on students' wearing overtly religious garb at public universities.

"Measures taken in universities to prevent certain fundamentalist religious movements

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