Azerbaijan's headscarf row: Were the girls excluded from school asked what they think?

Azerbaijan's headscarf row: Were the girls excluded from school asked what they think? Submitted by Ayşe Duran Yilmaz on Tue, 10/13/2026 - 15:01 The debate over Muslim women's clothing should begin with the children standing at school gates - not with abstract arguments among adults Pedestrians walk past Azerbaijan’s Government House in Baku, on 10 November 2024 (Alexander Nemenov/AFP) Off The clothing worn by Muslim girls has once again become a political controversy. In Azerbaijan, an amendment last month to uniform rules at state schools introduced requirements linked to the secular…