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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“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)
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—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
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