On Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned the European Court of Justice's decision to ban the wearing of headscarves in workplaces, saying that it provides a legal cover for discrimination against Muslim women.

The ministry explained - in a statement - that the European Court of Justice's decision is a public violation of the principle of freedom of belief and religion, noting that it constitutes a new model for efforts to give an institutional and legal identity to Islamophobia and intolerance towards Muslims in Europe.

The statement pointed out that Muslims in Europe are exposed to intolerance, hate speech, violence and exclusion on a large scale in the social and economic fields, and that Muslim women are negatively affected by this situation.

Last Friday, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice ruled that "banning the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in the workplace is not discrimination."

The court's decision came in response to a complaint filed by two Muslim women living in Germany, one of whom is an employee in a pharmacy and the other is a nurse in a nursery.

In its decision, the court said that companies have the right to prevent female employees from wearing the hijab under certain circumstances if they need to; To highlight its impartiality to its customers.