Turkey
is a great power of the world which is an important player of Middle East
politics. In the beginning of its independence, its state ideology was secularism,
but now it is trying to practice the Islam as state ideology because of popular
support to the Islam though present regime demands that they are not Islamist
but “Conservative Democrat”. According to secular ideology Kamalism which is
introduced by Mostafa Kamal, secularism will be practice in public affairs
because it accelerates the development of the state and Islam can be practiced
only in private life. But as it was the Hub of Islamic Chalaphat, secularism
did not get popular support and again it is reshaping institution of the state
on the basis of Islamic norms avoiding secularism. In the following we will
describe the political history of Turkey in brief, origin of secularism in
Turkey and finally the re-emergence of political Islam in Turkey politics.
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