Religion
See also: Religion in Turkey and Secularism in TurkeyMost Turkish people are Muslims, the majority following the Sunni branch of Islam, with the remainder being Alevis. However, the Turks generally take a fairly moderate attitude toward their religion and have developed a brand of secularism, known as Kemalism, when in 1924, the caliph was abdicated and all overt expressions of Islam from public life were banished.
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“... religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunate and are rightly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give it by feeling of the heart—without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)