Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked the country's highest court to explain its decision to overturn a government-led reform allowing students to wear Muslim headscarves at university. Speaking to lawmakers in Ankara, Erdogan repeated earlier statements that the Constitutional Court was not authorised to examine the contents of a constitutional amendment.
Last week, the judges annulled the reform that would have allowed women to wear headscarves on campus. The Constitutional Court, like the armed services, is a bastion of secularism in the Muslim country.
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