Turkey. Yemen. Oceania. Vatican. Freedom of religion. 04/30/2007, 00.00. TURKEY. Send to a friend. A river of flags in Istanbul in support of secular democracy.

Secular people in Turkey have never felt so alone and so under attack. Sadly, they do not even know how to deal with this pressure. An intellectual secular exodus from Turkey is probably imminent.

For nearly 90 years, Turkey has steered a course of state secularism, with a clear separation between mosque and state. But, the BBC's Arash Dabestani asks, for how much longer?

Amid a sea of red Turkish flags, nearly 750,000 people poured into the streets of Istanbul on Sunday to demand that parliament choose a president with no ... 750,000 march for secularism in Turkey ...

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Islamist political movements demanding an Islamic state or greater roles for Islam in society and politics have long been thought to be incompatible with western, liberal democracy. However, the most ...

Hours after celebrating the new year, Turkey witnessed its 15th attack claimed by Islamic State (IS) since 2014. This time, the target was Reina, a famous upscale nightclub on the shores of the ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Five military academy graduates and three of their immediate superiors were dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces for taking a pro-secular oath during their graduation ...

Secular Islamic Turkey. April 6, 2009 KIRI OZTURK (reading to her children from a children’s book): Allah made camels with great big humps. Allah made elephants with long, slinky trunks.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Five military academy graduates and three of their immediate superiors were dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces for taking a pro-secular oath during their graduation ...

But that isn’t really the nature of secularism in Turkey. Until the early 20th century, so intimate was the connection between political and religious power that when Ataturk founded the ...