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Algeria’s female soccer team players pose before their return match with Morocco in the African Nations Football Championship Ladies CAN 2014 on March 1, 2014 at the Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat, Morocco. (AFP Photo/Fadel Senna)


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Gulay Samanci, one of four ruling Justice and Development Party lawmakers wearing headscarves, who walked into Turkey’s parliament, is surrounded by other lawmakers in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday, Oct 31, 2013, marking the end of a longstanding ban in the chamber. The female members of parliament had announced their intentions after restrictions that were imposed in the early days of the Turkish Republic were recently lifted. The issue is highly charged in a country founded in 1923 under strict secular principles.(AP Photo)


Turkish MPs enter parliament with headscarves

Turkish MPs enter parliament with headscarves

Istanbul, AP—Four female lawmakers wearing headscarves walked into Turkey’s parliament in Ankara on Thursday, marking an end to the ban on the Muslim symbol in the chamber that was imposed in the early days of the Turkish Republic. Still, the issue of where...