Entering universities while wearing head-scarves was forbidden. You couldn't physically enter them wearing a head-scarf until very recently.

Is it the eastern part trying to impose its will on the western part or is it the eastern part trying to remove what western part imposed on them over decades?

Here are what I see people are claiming to be signs of AKP Islamizing Turkey: allowing women with headscarves attend universities, forbidding shops sell alcohol in late night hours (after 10PM).

In Ontario only government owned LCBO can sell liquor and its shops close at 6PM. The consumption of liquor in public places is forbidden completely in Canada. Surely Canada is not an Islamic state. Are we sure Turkey is a Muslim majority country?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_in_public#Canada

He says he doesn't remember a source but he has heard it several times that over 70% wears headscarf. I found this article by Google:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&...