Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey. Most Turkish Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. The established presence of Islam...
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While Turkey is officially a secular state, numerous surveys all show that Islam is the country's most common religion. Published data on the proportion...
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The Turkey–Islamic State conflict were a series of attacks and clashes between the state of Turkey and the Islamic State. Turkey joined the War against...
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Islamic State – Turkey province (IS–TP; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية تركيا; Turkish: İslam Devleti – Türkiye Vilayeti) is a branch of the Islamic...
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provision declaring that the "Religion of the State is Islam", and with the later reforms of Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, which set the...
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Turkish–Islamic synthesis (Turkish: Türk-İslam sentezi) is a type of Turkish nationalism which has an Islamist leaning instead of secular. Historian Gökhan...
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Alawites (redirect from Alawites in Turkey)
ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth...
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sociopolitical movement in southeastern Turkey. It was established in 1993 and led by Seyda Mele Abdullah. The group merged with the Kurdistan Islamic Community (CÎK)...
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Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and other alternatives in achieving...
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Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast...
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Turkey's involvement in the Syrian civil war began diplomatically and later escalated militarily. Initially, Turkey condemned the Syrian government at...
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Alevism (redirect from Alevi Islam)
(/æˈlɛvɪzəm/; Turkish: Alevilik; Kurdish: Elewîtî[failed verification]) is a syncretic Islamic tradition, whose adherents follow the mystical Islamic teachings...
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Although the symbol is now a recognized symbol of Islam, it does not carry any religious meaning on the Turkish flag. The flag is often called "the red flag"...
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Turkey is a founding member of the OECD and G20. The country's economy ranked as the 17th-largest in the world and 7th-largest in Europe by nominal GDP...
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Irreligion in Turkey Islam and other religions Islam in Turkey Karamanlides, a Turkish-speaking Greek Orthodox community Autocephalous Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate...
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in Islam (SIS)" [A synergy of Feminism and Islam: Sisters in Islam (SIS)]. Ondokuz Mayıs University Journal of Women's and Family Studies (in Turkish)...
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Shia Islam (/ˈʃiːə/) is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (656–661 CE) as his...
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Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (Turkish: il). Each province is divided into a number of districts (ilçe). Each provincial government is seated in...
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Irreligion in Turkey refers to the extent of the lack, rejection of, or indifference towards religion in the Republic of Turkey. Based on surveys, Islam is the...
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denominations and sects of Islam are practised within Syria, who collectively constitute approximately 87% of the population and form a majority in most of the districts...
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largest city in Turkey Ankara, the second-largest city and capital of Turkey İzmir, the third-largest city of Turkey and the largest city in the Aegean...
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religion in Turkey. It's the third largest religion in the country after Islam, Christianity As of 2024, there were 843 (0.001%) Hindus in Turkey. There...
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Turkey face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents, though the overall...
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Caucasus, the largest people of Caucasian origin, in diaspora in more than 40 countries (such as Jordan, Turkey, the countries of Europe, Syria, and the United...
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Dönmeh (category Islam in Turkey)
romanized: Dōnme, Ottoman Turkish: دونمه, Turkish: Dönme) were a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who were forced to convert to Islam, but retained...
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Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey, as well as the Turkish branch of the organisation. In 1969, in Istanbul, the International Islamic Federation of Student...
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Fethullah Gülen (category Turkish scholars of Islam)
) which seemed to favor an Islamic state. In June 1999, after Gülen had left Turkey, videotapes were sent to some Turkish television stations with recordings...
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AKP". Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. Hale, William; Özbudun, Ergun (2010). Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the...
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Piramidi[circular reference] Shankland, David (2003). The Alevis in Turkey: The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition. Routledge (UK). ISBN 0-7007-1606-8. "Ankette...
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promoting itself with its Islamic Turkistan magazine and Voice of Islam media in Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Turkish in order to reach out to global...
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