Turkey's highest court has annulled a parliamentary reform allowing college students to wear Muslim headscarves.

The Constitutional Court said that a decision in February to ease a ban on scarves being worn on campuses violated the constitution's secular principles.

The government said the ban meant many girls were being denied an education.

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(BBC)

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