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 is a great force: the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows dont understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.”
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