Editing Separation of church and state (section)

===Turkey===
{{Further|Islam in Turkey|Secularism in Turkey|Turkish nationalism}}
Turkey, whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim, is also considered to have practiced the [[laïcité]] school of secularism since 1928, which the founding father [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]]'s [[Atatürk's Reforms|policies]] and theories became known as [[Kemalism]].

Despite Turkey being an officially secular country, the Preamble of the Constitution states that "there shall be no interference whatsoever of the sacred religious feelings in State affairs and politics."<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/english/constitution.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810204816/http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/english/constitution.htm|archive-date=2006-08-10|title = The Constitution of the Republic of Turkey|publisher = Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM)}}</ref> In order to control the way religion is perceived by adherents, the State pays [[imam]]s' wages (only for Sunni Muslims) and provides religious education (of the Sunni Muslim variety) in [[Public school (government funded)|public schools]]. The State has a [[Directorate of Religious Affairs]], directly under the President bureaucratically, responsible for organizing the [[Sunni]] Muslim religion – including what will and will not be mentioned in sermons given at [[mosque]]s, especially on Fridays. Such an interpretation of secularism, where religion is under strict control of the State is very different from that of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]], and is a good example of how secularism can be applied in a variety of ways in different regions of the world. The exercise of their religion in Turkey by the Greek Orthodox and the Armenian Apostolic communities is partly regulated by the terms of the [[Treaty of Lausanne]]. No such official recognition extends to the Syriac communities.