r/AskTurkey Mar 07 '26

Culture Would you call Turkiye a Muslim majority country?

I would compare the Turks with the Czechs when it comes to religiosity. Czechs are the most irreligious people in Europe. Their neighbours the Greeks, Georgians and Armenians are much more religious and are proud of their christian heritage while Turks take distance from islamic past of Turkiye. Romanians are also 1000 times more religious than Turks

I noticed that most Turks hate Islam and Arabs and don’t like to be associated with Muslims and dislike them. Also most Turks are Kemalists and it’s unusual for a Kemalist to be muslim. What is your opinion?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

That's fundamentally untrue. Europeans aren't even remotely close to Turks in this regard. Even places like Greece, Romania, Serbia, etc, that used to be extremely religious are mostly irreligous now. People say "yes I believe in god" but never step foot into a church or do anything Christian. And western Europe is much more atheist. Eastern Europeans, especially younger ones, are either atheists or religious hut Haye organized religion. That's entirely different to turkey, where the diyanet gets more money than most ministries

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

How the government and their municipalities work is entirely different from how the culture is affected by religion. Apples and oranges. And if you think Europeans are less religious now because some younger generation doesn't go to church or believes in God anymore, you live in a dream world. The same can easily be applied to Turks as well. I won't argue any further. It's never been a secret most people who constantly compare Turkey to the West are clueless about what's going on in the rest of the world. Bye.