ISTANBUL - Sabih Kanadoglu, honorary chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals, said Saturday that the constitutional amendment would not free the headscarf ban.
"The constitutional amendment is the reiteration of the clauses already existing in Articles 10 and 42 of the Constitution," Kanadoglu said, attending a conference in Istanbul.
Recalling that the constitutional amendment added the statement "...and in benefitting from all public services" in the last sentence of the Constitution's Article 10 on "Equality before the Law", Kanadoglu said such an amendment would not change the meaning of the article.
Moreover, Kanadoglu recalled that the bill also amended Article 42 of the Constitution on "Right and Duty of Training and Education", by adding the statement "No one can be deprived of the right to receive higher education for reasons not openly mentioned by laws. The limits of the use of this right will be determined by law." Kanadoglu said, again, such statement was not different from the previous version of the article and it did not free headscarf.
(DO-EÖ)