In Turkey, laicism is still the main source of symbolic criteria that define a citizen who has complete rights; it expresses the economic and cultural monopoly of the societal "center" or core. Those who do not meet these criteria are castigated. For example, young women who wear the headscarf are denied a university education, or religious people are discriminated against as if they were "Negroes" during segregation in the United States.
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In Turkey, laicism
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