Girl Uncle Khaled. Here, put on the headscarf.

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come. If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

Is the hijab or the headscarf a symbol of submission or resistance?

As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf, Each is different. Different women wear the headscarf for different reasons.

An adult woman who chose to wear a headscarf might be excluded from employment in some jobs and a minor girl who was required to wear a headscarf by her family could be excluded from school.

It is assumed that since religion is a private matter for everyone, personal religious symbols are just that personal. A Muslim girl who wears a headscarf in a public school is simply wearing a headscarf, not provocatively challenging a hegemonic social order.

In everyday life the two types of Turkish women are more mixed than they are usually assumed to be. It is not uncommon for one sister to wear a headscarf while another does not, or a mother to wear a headscarf while her daughters do not.

Hijab is often rendered in translation as headscarf and may be nothing more than a scarf covering the hair and neck.

She always wears a headscarf, but I've walked alongside with her on a beach with her long hair flying in the breeze.

Lastly, the suggestion that women wearing headscarves did not have access to health care was completely unfounded the headscarf issue had arisen only at some universities.

As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf, Each is different.

This is Europe s headscarf debate in a nutshell. It speaks to none of the barriers to participation or to immigrant responses to them, but demands symbolic assimilation.

This headscarf and these clothes, she says, give me the freedom to do what I need to do to speak to those whose support and assistance are critical for this work.

She explains that as a practicing Muslim, she dressed appropriately, in accordance with the tenets of her religion, and in her second year of studies started to wear a headscarf ( hijab ).

The next day, the Deputy Dean on Ideological and Educational matters called her to his office during a lecture and showed her the new regulations again and asked her to take off her headscarf.

She would also welcome information on the percentage of women's income in relation to social security and on any study conducted, especially in rural areas, on the real impact of the headscarf ban on female school attendance.

But in Turkey the headscarf is not seen as a trivial symbol. Eighty years after the republic s founding the trouble with headscarved women is that they do not fit into the picture of the ideal modern Turkish woman.

The author claims that she is a victim of violations of her rights under articles 18 and 19 of the Covenant, as she was excluded from University because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons and refused to remove it.

6.2 The Committee has noted the author's claim that her right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion was violated as she was excluded from University because she refused to remove the headscarf that she wore in accordance with her beliefs.

The headscarf that Gül s wife wears for religious reasons was seen as an assault on Turkey s sacrosanct principle of secularism. Indeed, outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer refused to invite the wives of AKP deputies who covered their hair to state dinners and Republic Day receptions.

The Gezi Park demonstrators who in June protested peacefully against the use of excessive police force by simply standing still also protested peacefully, years ago, against the ban on the headscarf then in effect in Turkey s universities. This kind of concern for the rights of all is a hallmark of Turkey s young generation.

Back in 2012, for example, the head of the interim government, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, declared his intention to lift restrictions against polygamy. Later, he ordered Sarah Elmesallati, the host of the ceremony at which power was transferred to the GNC, to leave the stage halfway through her presentation because she was not wearing a headscarf.

Last summer s re election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s AKP, followed by the election of Abdullah Gul as the first president whose wife wears a headscarf, seemed to confirm the fears of anti Islamic Europeans. Yet, even if many AKP activists and voters are devout Muslims, Erdogan and Gul remain committed to European integration.

I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered was probably from the novelty of seeing a Westerner so clothed but, as I moved about the market the curve of my breasts covered, the shape of my legs obscured, my long hair not flying about me I felt a novel sense of calm and serenity.

Finally, with regard to response No. 26 on the wearing of the headscarf (CEDAW PSWG 2005 I CRP.2 Add.7, pp. 19 20), although regulation No. 17537 required female students' heads to be uncovered and regulation No. 17849 required women employees in public offices and institutions to leave their heads uncovered, she expressed concern that such provisions were incompatible with the right to equal access to education and employment.