Most people outside of Asia and the Middle East who wear a turban are Sikhs. Male Sikhs who have taken Amrit or Pahul and added the name Singh, are required to don the Dastaar due to a pronouncement in 1699 by the tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh. Dastaar, is the native Punjabi word used to refer to this head dress. Even some Sikh women, who are not required to wear a turban do so after taking Amrit and gaining the name Kaur. Even today some 300 years later, it is in compliance to the Hukam (or order) of the last Sikh human Guru that all Singhs today wear the dastaar. It is in honour and obedience to this one person!