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Female student banned from Çanakkale field trip

Female student banned from Çanakkale field trip - An imam-hatip high school student was told 15 minutes into a school field trip that she would not be able to participate because of her headscarf, and promptly removed from the bus.<br />
An imam-hatip high school student was told 15 minutes into a school field trip that she would not be able to participate because of her headscarf, and promptly removed from the bus.

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The day had started out well for Muğla Fethiye İmam Hatip High School student Büşra Pirci. Her father saw her off on the school bus that was to take the high school junior and her classmates on a trip to Çanakkale as part of the Republic Educational Trips program sponsored by the Education Ministry's Muğla Directorate. Teachers took a head count and then took group pictures to put on the directorate's Web site before the bus set out on its way. Fifteen minutes later, an aide reportedly came up to Büşra and told her that she should remove her headscarf when they arrived at their destination to avoid any trouble.

“You're fine on the bus, but at the places we're going to visit and stay at you'll have to uncover your head,” Pirci says she was told. The aide then told her that if she wanted she could get out of the bus before they got any further. The bus stopped, and a vehicle from the education directorate picked her up to take her back to the school in central Muğla, from where the group had departed. Pirci says that nobody said a word to her about any complications her headscarf might present either in the days leading up to the trip or at school before they left.

As of yesterday afternoon, the Education Directorate could not be reached for comment.

22 October 2009, Thursday

TODAY'S ZAMAN  İSTANBUL
Comments on this article

Abdulaziz , Oct 22 2009 08:42, Thursday
Can anyone tell me why Turkey is so threatened by a 1400 year old custom found all over the world? This was not a sensib...
Tara Hopkins , Oct 22 2009 05:57, Thursday
What a show of respect it would be if the same standards were in place for those who throw trash on the streets, outside...

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