# Turkey lifts the public-service headscarf ban for most civil servants

Date: 2013

## The fact

On 8 October 2013 a regulation package allowed most female civil servants to wear a headscarf at work, ending a long Kemalist restriction. [Erdoğan](/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan) was prime minister.

## Context

Universities had already been eased. Judges and military remained restricted longer. The cabinet issued the regulation; he politically owned it. He did not hire every later covered clerk.

Hagia Sophia 2020 is a different identity file. Gezi 2013 is a different date the same year.

The president of Turkey is head of state and, since the 2017 executive-presidency reform, head of government. The Grand [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) writes statutes; the Official Gazette records decrees; courts, governors, and the armed forces implement. He does not write a European Council conclusion, an IMF programme, or a UN General Assembly resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Official Gazette of Turkey carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is protection of minority/religious practice and labour access: a completed end to a workplace ban is an inclusion instrument for covered women in the civil service.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 8 October 2013 regulation allowing headscarves for most civil servants, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later female-employment coefficient from that week, or that every workplace restriction vanished.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He politically owned it. Agencies implemented dress-code changes.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Turkey lifts the public-service headscarf ban for most civil servants, not a later speech about Turkey lifts the public-service headscarf ban for most civil servants.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Turkey lifts the public-service headscarf ban for most civil servants on 2013-10-08 is not a licence to treat every later Official Gazette of Turkey communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Turkey lifts the public-service headscarf ban for most civil servants into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government issued the regulation. He politically owned it. Agencies implemented dress-code changes. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Grand National Assembly, the Official Gazette, governors, courts, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A detention is not a conviction.

## People

- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: https://factrail.ai/people/recep-tayyip-erdogan

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-headscarf-idUSBRE9970X620131008
- https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tr-headscarf-public-service-2013