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Three students wearing haedscarves walk in Istanbul on February 25, 2008. Turkey’s higher education watchdog warned university chiefs today that they risked prosecution if they flouted new laws allowing women students to wear the Islamic headscarf. The Higher Education Board (HEB), which oversees and regulates universities, warned that Turkey’s penal code defined as crimes the prevention of the right to education and pressure on individuals to adopt a certain mode of attire. AFP PHOTO / Hocine Zaourar.