Turkey lifts headscarf ban in religious schools to secularists’ dismay
Posted December 2, 2012
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Turkey lifts headscarf ban in religious schools to secularists’ dismay
“These are all steps taken as a result of a demand.”
Rivalry between religious and secular elites is one of the major fault lines in Turkish public life.
Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party has tamed the influence of the military — the self-appointed guardians of secularism since the modern republic was founded in 1923 — over the past decade, but he denies an Islamist agenda.
Last month the military top brass attended a reception in the presidential palace alongside the headscarved wives of the president and prime minister, something that until recently would have been unthinkable.
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The secularist newspaper Cumhuriyet said the latest reform was a step towards the Islamization of education.
“This will end with chadors,” a headline in the paper said.
The latest reform followed a law approved in March allowing “imam hatip” schools specializing in religious education combined with a modern curriculum to take children from the age of 11 instead of 15.
The Egitim-Sen education sector union was critical of the move on school uniforms and the headscarf.
“The changes in the clothing regulations are important in enabling us to see the intense degree to which the education system is being made religious,” the union said in a statement.
“Religious symbols which spread a religious lifestyle in schools and which will have a negative impact on the psychology of developing children should definitely not be used,” it said.
But others voiced support for the reform.
Gurkan Avcı, head of the Democratic Educators’ Union (DES), said it had removed a legacy of the Sept. 12, 1980, military coup by changing the dress code.
“We will not be able to rescue the education system from the perverse consequences of the oppression, rituals, dogma and thinking of the ‘cold war’ period until teachers and pupils are liberated,” he said.
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