On Tuesday, the Turkish government partially lifted a ban that kept women from appearing in state offices wearing Islamic headscarves.
The ban dates back to 1981, and has socially and professionally isolated Turkish women who wear the scarf.
Though the religious call the ban oppressive, secular Turks fear that lifting the ban promotes a conservative state.
Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Merve Kavakçi, who was voted into the Turkish Parliament in 1999, and wore a headscarf to her swearing-in ceremony.
She was immediately dismissed from her position, banned from politics, and eventually stripped of her Turkish citizenship.
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