Word: headscarfs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Turkish politician Merve Kavakci spoke last night at the Kennedy School of Government's Starr auditorium about being expelled from the Turkish parliament in 1999 for wearing a headscarf...
...told the packed auditorium that she was elected to the parliament but prevented from taking her oath of office because her headscarf, associated with Muslim conservatism, was viewed as a threat to the secular culture. Her citizenship was then revoked...
...discussed a similar case of a schoolgirl who was denied permission to take an exam wearing a headscarf...