{"id":243403,"date":"2021-07-18T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/turkey-says-eu-headscarf-ruling-grants-legitimacy-to-racism"},"modified":"2021-07-18T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T17:34:48","slug":"turkey-says-eu-headscarf-ruling-grants-legitimacy-to-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/18\/turkey-says-eu-headscarf-ruling-grants-legitimacy-to-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says EU headscarf ruling \u2018grants legitimacy to racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing businesses to ban item of clothing at work will exclude Muslim women and encourage Islamophobia, critics say <\/p><p>Turkey\u2019s cabinet ministers have criticised a European Union court\u2019s decision to allow employers to ban headscarves from their workplaces, saying it is \u201ca blow to the rights of Muslim women\u201d and that it would \u201cgrant legitimacy to racism\u201d.<\/p><p>The EU\u2019s highest court, the European court of justice (ECJ), on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/eu-companies-can-ban-employees-wearing-headscarves-religious-symbols\">Thursday<\/a> ruled that private employers can ban workers from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves in their workplaces.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/21\/les-hijabeuses-the-female-footballers-tackling-frances-on-pitch-hijab-ban\">Les Hijabeuses: the female footballers tackling France\u2019s on-pitch hijab ban<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/turkey-says-eu-headscarf-ruling-grants-legitimacy-to-racism\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/turkey-says-eu-headscarf-ruling-grants-legitimacy-to-racism\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing businesses to ban item of clothing at work will exclude Muslim women and encourage Islamophobia, critics say Turkey\u2019s cabinet ministers have criticised a European Union court\u2019s decision to allow employers to ban headscarves from their workplac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32200,471,2036,307,6,1331,640,1321,105,1320,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243404,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243403\/revisions\/243404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}