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Turkey henceforth allow police to carry handkerchiefs


Turkey has lifted the ban on the use of headscarves by police. 

Female officers can use scarves, provided that it be simple and uniform of the same color.

Bans headscarves in campuses and public institutions except Judiciary, Army and Police are also issues that have arisen in recent years.

Coating has been a matter of diskutueshnme in Turkey for years.Secularists regard it as a symbol of religious conservatism.

Since 1920, Turkey has been a secular constitution, no state religion.

The opposition has criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the justice system, saying that the Islamist-rooted and Development Party (AKP) is trying to reinterpret secularism, KosovaPress.

However, the public debate has evolved in such a way that the hijab has become accepted as an expression of individual freedoms BBC correspondents say there.

Meanwhile, there is no opposition expressed against this movement recently.

Erdogan has embraced from the time of Turks' right to express their religious beliefs openly, although he says it is committed to the spirit of secularism./ShikoNews

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