ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Fatma Bostan Unsal says she was barred from taking an exam for doctoral studies at a Turkish university because she wore an Islamic headscarf, so she traveled abroad to study.
Now she faces a new hurdle: she wants to run for parliament in June elections despite secular rules that bar religious attire in government settings.
Unsal is among a dozen Islamic headscarf-wearing women who have applied to be parliamentary candidates for Turkey's Islam-based ruling party. Their aspirations lay down a tricky challenge for the Justice and Development Party, which has denounced laws restricting headscarves in some Turkish settings but seeks to avoid a backlash from …
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