Religion in Turkey?

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habisce

There are people non-religious.
There are people acting as religious ones but not at all.
There are people consider they're religious but just practicing their cultural.Those people generally live in eastern Turkey.
There are people strict about their beliefs.They judge anyone else do not think as they do and consider themselves as perfect.
There are people do not believe in anything.
There are people non-Muslims.
Therefore,it is a real relativity problem.

Frank B

Why this question?

Being secular does not mean being atheist. It means the country is run by secular rather than religious powers. Turkey is a secular country.

Tell me a country were atheists are the majority. Just name one! Is it yours?

By the way Turkey is less religious than Poland.

sultan.murat

Hold on a minute. Secular does and can never mean non-practicing or non-religious. Now drop that big brush you´re painting with.
Turkey as a whole is not secular, was not secular, has never been secular. Yet the Turkish State and Laws are to a great extent secular.
You can never tell if people are secular or not, cause it´s very personal and each Turk defines it differently. If secularism could merely be defined as separation of state and religious affairs, than the state of Turkey would score over % 90.

ev pandası

I guess the most well-known muslim practices is the ritual prayer ( which is performed 5 times a day ). So if we regularize the question as " what is the percentage of muslims who regularlu perform the ritual prayers?" I guess the percentage is about 40-50 % of the muslim population. But still, only Allah knows what really is inside, who is a better beliver and who is not...

hanibal

secularism is not a religion

Hurricane

Turkey is secular,that means Turkey is a laic country and religion is not important on our daily lives apart from iran.of course people are free to do everything but that the way most of our citizens choise.

mrs sexy pants

Well, you got it right (so I'm not quite understanding the question)... according to the encyclopedia ... Nominally, 97.4% of the Turkish population is Muslim, of whom a majority belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. A sizeable minority of the population is affiliated with the Alevi sect. The remainder of the population belongs to other beliefs, particularly Christian denominations (Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Church of the East), Judaism, Yezidism and Atheism.

The mainstream Hanafite school of Sunni Islam is largely organised by the state, through the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Religious Affairs Directorate), which controls all mosques and Muslim clerics. The directorate is criticized by some Alevi Muslims for not supporting their beliefs and instead favoring the Sunni faith. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Patrik) is the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey, and also serves as the spiritual leader of all Orthodox churches throughout the world. The Armenian Patriarch is the head of the Armenian Church in Turkey, while the Jewish community is led by the Hahambaşı, Turkey's Chief Rabbi, based in İstanbul.

DejaVu

we as a country have no religion so we are better then most countries of Europe....we don`t get ruled by religious beliefs when most countries do.....only people have religions and free to choose whatever suits them I am a Turk and don`t believe in religions I have got my own one only believe in god, my family is Muslim so that's just an example...in anyway Turkish Muslims are different from the other Muslims.. other countries didn't only take Islam from Arabs but culture too, we did not....

Irmak

East of Turkey is religious Muslim.
West of Turkey is not religious.You can find every religion there.They are totally secular.
North of Turkey is unreligious Muslim.We can call them 'cultural Muslims'..Most of them are secular.
South of Turkey is mostly Christian because of Russian and English tourists.But there are unreligious Turkish people there.I mean, they are 'cultural Muslims'.Most of them are secular.

genç türk

Practising muslims(incl. Alevis): 45%
Non-practising muslims: 48%
Atheists-deists: 5%
Christian-Jewish:2%

O.CETIN BAYRAMOGLU

Turkey is not secular state , Turkey is a laic state and the secularism is different from the laicism.

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