ISSN: 1011-727X
e-ISSN: 2667-5420

Bülent Daver

Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkey, Secularism

Özet

Secularism (separation of State and religion) is the result and the cause of Atatürk's reforms carried out mainly in the years 1922-1935. This principle, unlike in western countries, had not been realized by the evolutionary currents and ideas of philosophers, disseminated among large parts of the people throughout the centuries, but rather by direct and resolute action and revolutionary enthusiasm of a considerably small elite composed of bureaucrats and young army offıcers.