Merve Kavakci Islam was elected to parliament in 1999, but was prevented from taking her parliamentary oath because she wears a headscarf. Then Kavakci's political party, Virtue [Fazilet Partisi], was shut down for violating the secularist articles of the constitution and her Turkish citizenship was revoked, banning her from politics for five years.
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Merve Kavakci Islam was elected to parliament in 1999, but was prevented from taking her parliamentary oath because she wears a headscarf. Then Kavakci's political party, Virtue [Fazilet Partisi], was shut down for violating the secularist articles of the constitution and her Turkish citizenship was revoked, banning her from politics for five years.
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