(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Confederation of Public Servants' Trade Unions (Memur-Sen) announced that it will submit the 10 million signatures to Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Memur-Sen's Deputy Secretary General Gunay Kaya confirmed that more than 10 million signatures have been collected from the Turkish people.
Memur-Sen is Turkey's biggest confederation of public servants with 650,000 members.
"Collecting more than 10 million signatures shows the common will of 75 million Turkish population," Kaya said.
He noted that the Memur-Sen started collecting signatures from 81 Turkish cities and villages on January 14.
Last month, a controversial ban by the Turkish government on Hijab (Islamic code of dressing) outraged Turkey's Muslim population. The Islamic Hijab is a form of Muslim women's dress code, which allows them to exercise modesty by covering their hair with a piece of headscarf.
Despite its claim to be an Islamic state, the Turkish government has not lifted the ban on the Islamic Hijab in educational centers and offices.
School and university students wearing Hijab in Turkey are regarded as the largest front of the campaign against the Hijab ban in the public sector and educational places in the country.
Following the implementation of the Hijab ban after the coup of February 28, 1997 in Turkey, many of the headscarf-wearing women have faced difficulties in their social lives.
According to polls 97.8% of the Turkish population is Muslim. Despite the fact that it's an obligation in Islam to wear the Hijab, Turkish citizens say the majority of the population is not allowed to exercise their religious freedoms.
The headscarf is banned in the public sector and work places. Women who work in hospitals, schools and public offices are strictly forbidden from wearing the Hijab.
University students were also banned from wearing Hijab. However the government was forced to be more lenient with Universities, as many Turks were fleeing the country seeking a state where they could exercise their right of religious freedom.
Last month, a female lawyer entered a Turkish court wearing a headscarf for the first time, following the revoking of a regulation banning the headscarf in judicial institutions by the Cabinet.
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