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Ankara: Turkey's highest court has overturned a ruling which allowed students to wear the hijab at university.
The constitutional court said it had upheld an appeal from one of Turkey’s opposition parties against the parliamentary amendement which was passed in February.
That decision prompted protests in the fiercely secular country.
The opposition party had argued that allowing students to wear headscarves on campus would undermine its secular status.
The decision comes as a blow to the ruling AK party as the headscarf issue is also being used as the cornerstone of another case against them.
It accuses them of anti-secular behaviour and is asking for the banning of 71 members, including the Prime Minister and President, from belonging to a political party for five years.
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