Turkey will allow women police officers
to wear Islamic headscarves while on duty, provided that they match the
uniform, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday.
The regulation was changed in the government’s Official Gazette and states the headscarf must be plain, without designs.
The move follows similar changes in
regulations in other countries, including Canada, and comes after a ban
on the burkini in local districts in France made headlines in Turkey.
Turkey, a Muslim majority but officially secular state, has a fraught history with the headscarf.
Former secular governments forbade it in universities and among civil servants.
The ruling conservative-Islamic Justice
and Development Party (AKP) has been relaxing these old rules since it
came to power in 2002. Liberals in Turkey have often supported efforts
to undo the restrictions put in place by the old guard and the military.
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