Turkish Cypriot teachers’ legal challenge to have the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs at public schools declared unlawful was adjourned until June 12 on Thursday.
Teachers believe that the law, which has provoked widespread protests across the north since it was first introduced in March, runs contrary to the ‘TRNC’s’ constitution’s stipulation that public education must be secular.
At a previous court hearing, Cyprus Turkish
