Islam in Turkey: Odd one out

Turkey's modern history makes it virtually unique in the Muslim world.
When the modern Turkish republic was born in 1923, its founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk pushed through what was arguably the most radical programme of secularisation ever attempted in any Muslim society, before or since.
Ataturk believed secular nationalism was an essential hallmark of modernity and progress.

But in Turkey today the tensions between religion and state are all too apparent...

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