niaz
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Sir,
Why is a Turkish Muslim and I know quite a lot of them, very ardent muslims yet they are very secular and open minded. They dont identify themselves with pan-arabia or its policies. Why is that you dont see Turkish muslims fighting Jihad against the infidels.
Actually there is a resurgence of Islamists in Turkey as well and the Islamist party won majority in the last election.
Answer to your question is that until the 18th century, Ottomon Empire was one of the largest in World history. However merely a 100 years later by 1924, it had shrunk to its present borders.
Kamal Attaturk concluded that this was to due to Islam which was the real cause of backwardness of the Turks. He banned reading and writing of Turkish language in old script and introduced Roman script. He banned the wearing of veil, wearing of the Fez cap and even the reading of Quran in Arabic. He abolished Khilafat and officially made Turkey a secular state.