The Constitution establishes the country as a secular state and provides for freedom of belief, freedom of worship, and the private dissemination of religious ideas. The BBC reported in 2014 that Turkey's Christian population had declined from 20% to 0.2% since 1914. These Bulgarian Muslims number 750,000 in Turkey and are mostly found in what is known as "European Turkey".There are also many other, smaller minority groups living within Turkey. Therefore, the official number of Muslims also include people with no religion; converted from Islam to a different religion than Islam; and anyone who is of a different religion than their parents, but hasn't applied for a change of their individual records.The World of the Alevis: Issues of Culture and Identity, Gloria L. ClarkeRapport Minority Rights Group Bir eşitlik arayışı: Türkiye’de azınlıklar Uluslararası Azınlık Hakları Grubu 2007 Dilek Kurban 99% of Turkey’s people today are Muslim, and Turkey’s historyis principally that of an Islamic people, their empires,architecture, arts and literature. The Turkish government imposes some restrictions on Muslims and other religious groups, as well as Muslim religious expression in government offices and state-run institutions, including universities.
The main religion, followed by 99.8% of the population, is Islam, while other religions are followed by the minute.02% of the population. The secularity, bearing a meaning of a protection of believers, plays an important role to protect the state. Fierce rhetoric from the government has left less space for other voices, including the Christian church—the general opinion is … After the empire had declined due to various factors, the Turkish people were left without an identity. Those who are classified as "other Islam" do not identify with any of the established branches of Islam. 1977. Minority languages include Kurdish, spoken by 6% of the population. The Presidency of Religious Affairs, which has a budget over U.S. $2.5 billion in 2012, finance only This situation presents a theological problem, insofar as Islam stipulates, through the notion of In 2013, with over 4.6 billion TL (Turkish Lira), Diyanet or Ministry of Religious Affairs, occupies the 16th position of central government expenditure.Although intellectual debates on the role of Islam attracted widespread interest, they did not provoke the kind of controversy that erupted over the issue of appropriate attire for Muslim women. Tens of thousands were driven from their homes. There are roughly 20-25 million Kurds across the Middle East, almost half of whom live in southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria and northwestern Iran, a region that some Kurds refer to as Kurdistan. In the 1930s, the Turkish government began a program to forcefully "Zaza Kurds speak a separate language from the Turks and ethnic Kurds, that being their own Zazaki language, which is related to other Persian and Kurdish languages. They make up around 13% of Turkey's population.
There is also a large group of modern migrant Arabs from Arab states in Istanbul. Culturally as well as ethnically linked to Kurds.
They believe that Muhammad died without appointing a successor and therefore elders decided to appoint Abu Bakr as the first Caliph (successor). In some countries such as Albania and Kyrgyzstan, unclassified Muslims make up the majority of the population. This language is considered an endangered language due to the small number of Zaza Kurds and their historical integration into Turkish culture and society. These people have historic roots in Persia/Iran, but this is hard to prove as their history is one of oral tradition. The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) has been fighting against the Turkish military for over 30 years, with only brief peace agreements being reached during this time.The Turkish people have been in the region of Turkey and its surrounding areas since around 1071 AD, and have gradually spread throughout the country we now know as Turkey. Inevitably, the reintroduction of religion into the school curriculum raised the question of religious higher education. Their property was plundered. Abu Bakr was the father in law of Muhammad. There was also a wave of Albanian refugees during the Kosovo conflict in the 1990s.Arabs have long historic roots in the region, settling in the country as early as the 11th Century, arriving at around the same time as the soon-to-be dominant Turkish tribes. Furthermore, the Diyanet employs all of the imams in Turkey.When collecting tax, all Turkish citizens are equal. Turkey's Erdogan says Israel damaging Jerusalem's 'Islamic character' 07/26/2017 Turkey’s Alevis, a Muslim Minority, Fear a Policy of Denying Their Existence: 07/22/2017 Religion in schools: Turkey has a problem with evolution so has banned teaching Darwin's theory until college: 06/23/2017 Some of these ethnic groups struggle to receive recognition and retain their cultures and language.All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2020 worldatlas.com Turkey has been home to all three great revealed religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—for centuries. Göreme (Turkish: [ɟœˈɾeme]; Ancient Greek: Κόραμα, romanized: Kòrama), located among the "fairy chimney" rock formations, is a town in Cappadocia, a historical region of Turkey.It is in the Nevşehir Province in Central Anatolia and has a population of around 2,000 people.. Former names of the town have been Korama, Matiana, Maccan or Machan, and Avcilar. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. A small advocacy group that became extremely influential was the Hearth of Intellectuals (The state's more tolerant attitude toward Islam encouraged the proliferation of private religious activities, including the construction of new mosques and Although the tarikah (the term can sometimes be used to refer to any 'group or sect' some of whom may not even be Muslim) have played a seminal role in Turkey's religious revival and in the mid-1990s still published several of the country's most widely circulated religious journals and newspapers, a new phenomenon, The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice; however, the Government imposes some restrictions on all religious expression in government offices and state-run institutions, including universities, usually for the stated reason of preserving the secular state, and distance of state to all kinds of beliefs.