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June 6, 2008

Turkey Steers into a Dangerous Identity Crisis

by Ferda Ataman and Jürgen Gottschlich, Spiegel Online, Germany - Turkey's highest court in Ankara ruled on Thursday that a law passed by Erdogan's government easing the ban on headscarves at universities was unconstitutional. The ruling is a precursor to a dramatic confrontation likely to emerge in the coming months between Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AKP party and the country's secularist forces, led by the powerful military.

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