<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/427ffa4d-f70f-45fb-b10c-c2a0213b59bc/BF2D9C1D-2BC2-445D-9D46-45B6D8B9F520/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"><IMG height="276" width="460" alt="Turkish women wear headscraves at a demonstration in Ankara" src="http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/05/28/turk460.jpg" /> <P class="caption">Turkish women wear headscarves in Ankara</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"><H2 id="strap">BST</H2> <H1 class="article-no-standfirst">Turkish court upholds university headscarf ban</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Turkey's highest court today overturned a politically controversial law<BR />allowing women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university, dealing<BR />a heavy blow to the country's Islamist-leaning government and its chances<BR />of survival</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">In a decision with significant implications for Turkey's future, the<BR />constitutional court upheld an appeal from opposition parties that the law<BR />- passed by parliament last February - posed a threat to its 85-year-old<BR />secular system</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Headscarf-wearing women have complained<BR />of being expelled from classes by professors while others have worn wigs to<BR />get around the ban</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">The ruling was a major setback for the AKP, which is already embroiled in a<BR />separate case - also before the constitutional court - to close it and ban<BR />its leading figures from politics for alleged anti-secular activity</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/turkey?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Some analysts said the verdict was an indicator that the court<BR />intended to shut the AKP</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF2D9C1D-2BC2-445D-9D46-45B6D8B9F520/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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