This philosophy is a great concept for other nations too, such as, United States, which we follow, but it could be tuned up. A secular nation also claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and claims to avoid privileged treatment for a citizen from a certain religion/non-religion. However, unlike America, Islam does not separate religion from the state. Secularism in Turkey came after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. With the country getting down Mustafa Kemal Atatürk led a political and cultural revolution. Turkish modernism went through a reversal of the Islamic Ottoman system and the adoption of a west-oriented mode of modernization. This resulted in the abolition of the Caliphate. Also, a secular civil code was adopted to replace the previous codes based on Islamic law, which outlaws all forms of polygamy, annulled religious marriages, granting equal rights to men and women, in matters of inheritance, marriage and
This philosophy is a great concept for other nations too, such as, United States, which we follow, but it could be tuned up. A secular nation also claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and claims to avoid privileged treatment for a citizen from a certain religion/non-religion. However, unlike America, Islam does not separate religion from the state. Secularism in Turkey came after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. With the country getting down Mustafa Kemal Atatürk led a political and cultural revolution. Turkish modernism went through a reversal of the Islamic Ottoman system and the adoption of a west-oriented mode of modernization. This resulted in the abolition of the Caliphate. Also, a secular civil code was adopted to replace the previous codes based on Islamic law, which outlaws all forms of polygamy, annulled religious marriages, granting equal rights to men and women, in matters of inheritance, marriage and