The Seven Wonders of the Muslim World
Turkey
A Turkish woman in a headscarf waits for a bus in Istanbul. In June 2008 Turkey's courts overturned a government-led bid to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities.
Across the world the right of Muslim women to choose whether or not they cover their heads in public places is fiercely debated. Some wear the hijab as a political act, often to assert their identity in the face of hostility to Islam. In some countries, though, women are punished and marginalised for not covering their hair or faces with rigidly prescribed forms of head covering.
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