Ombudsman to recommend allowing public servants to wear headscarves

ANKARA - Anadolu Agency

Turkey’s ombudsman has decided to issue a recommendation to allow public servants to wear headscarves following a complaint filed by an employee who was given a warning for working with a headscarf.
 
The ombudsman said the headscarf ban for employees working in state institutions and organizations was against human rights, the principle of equality, freedom of religion and conscience, freedom of employment contracts, the understanding of justice, the law, the principles of good governance, the Constitution and international agreements.
 
The ombudsman will recommend to the Prime Ministry that it remove an article from the regulation on workplace dress that requires workers to “always be bareheaded in the assigned position.”