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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“We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”
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The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,
But thou wouldst have that love thy selfe: As thou
Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now,
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O, if thou carst not whom I love
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