The Islamic veil enters the Turkish Parliament

A situation unprecedented in secular Republic, allowed by the reform, approved in September by the moderate Islamist party in power.

The four members gave rise to a debate in the Chamber, away from the extreme positions of the past, with the opposition accusing the Executive of trying to create a controversy, just a few months of municipal.

"I have to express my gratitude when one of the most important problems of Turkey, the Islamic veil, was solved today under the roof of this House," said Mrs Pervin Buldan pro-Kurdish paper party, Pervin Buldan, who did not hide his support for the measure, on behalf of the fight for women's rights.

The topic ignites, however, the revolt by Republican opposition that accuses the Government of Tayyip Erdogan of trying to islamizing the country, violating the principles of the secular Republic founded in 1923.

In September, the Government had approved a so-called reform "democratic modernization", authorising the wearing of the Islamic veil in public spaces, until then banned by law.

In 1999 a member of the then Party of virtue, the predecessor of the AKP, Erdogan, had been expelled from the Parliament after attempting to attend the session, wearing the Islamic veil.

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