Bahais are an open community, located worldwide, with the greatest concentration of believers in South Asia. [40] Since there is a great stigma attached to being an atheist in Turkey, many Turkish atheists communicate with each other via the Internet. Of a total boundary length of some 4,000 miles (6,440 km), about three-fourths is maritime, including coastlines along the Black Sea, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, as well as the narrows that link the Black and Aegean seas. Sevinc, K., Hood, R. W. Jr., Coleman, T. J. III, (2017). 99% of the Turkish population Please select which sections you would like to print: Corrections? Jehovah's Witnesses structure their faith on the Christian Bible, but their rejection of the Trinity is distinct from mainstream Christianity. [53] The Presidency of Religious Affairs finances only Sunni Muslim worship in Turkey. [34] Some religious and secular officials have also claimed that atheism and deism are growing among Turkish people. Author of. [110], In August 2020, just a month after the Hagia Sofia, the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered another ancient Orthodox Church, the 1,000 year old Church of St. Saviour in Chora to be converted into a mosque. Altınlı-Macić, M., & Coleman, T. J. III, (2015). With the abolition of the Caliphate and [76], In the most recent poll conducted by Sabancı University in 2006, 98.3% of Turks revealed they were Muslim. Alawi faith: Another Shia sect of Islam, the name reflects followers' devotion to the religious authority of Ali. [39] According to another poll made in 2019 by OPTİMAR,which interviewed 3,500 people 89.5% of those who were interview declared they believe in God while 4.5 said they believe in a God but do not believe in a religion. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Samim Akgönül – Religions de Turquie, religions des Turcs: nouveaux acteurs dans l'Europe élargie – L'Harmattan – 2005 – 196 pages, The World of the Alevis: Issues of Culture and Identity, Gloria L. Clarke, Rapport Minority Rights Group Bir eşitlik arayışı: Türkiye’de azınlıklar Uluslararası Azınlık Hakları Grubu 2007 Dilek Kurban, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, population exchange between Greece and Turkey, modernizing reforms undertaken by President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul, Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East, Autocephalous Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, attacks by extremists on synagogues in 2003, caricatures of Muhammad in Danish newspapers, International Association of Byzantine Studies, Greek (Ecumenical) Patriarchate of Constantinople, "e-Devlet'te yeni hizmet: Din değişikliği yapılabilecek", "Nüfus Kaydındaki Din Bilgisi Değişikliği Başvurusu", "An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP's New Turkey", "TÜRKİYE'DE TOPLUMUN DİNE VE DİNİ DEĞERLERE BAKIŞI", "Türkiye artık yüzde 99'u müslüman olan ülke değil", "KONDA Toplumsal Değişim Raporu: Türkiye'de inançsızlık yükselişte", "Türkiye'deki Ateist Nüfus Hızla Artıyor", https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MRG_Rep_Turk2007_TURK.pdf, "Avrupa'da azınlıklar ve azınlık hakları", "The Patriarchate of Constantinople (The Ecumenical Patriarchate)", "International Institute for Religious Freedom: Single Post", "Turkish Protestants still face "long path" to religious freedom – The Christian Century", "Christians in eastern Turkey worried despite church opening", "TURKEY: Protestant church closed down - Church In Chains - Ireland :: An Irish voice for suffering, persecuted Christians Worldwide", "The politics of population in a nation-building process: emigration of non-Muslims from Turkey", "International Religious Freedom Report 2008: Turkey", "For the first time, Turkish Baháʼí appointed as dean", "Chapter Four: The Baháʼí Faith in Turkey", "Why so many Turks are losing faith in Islam", Atheism grows in Turkey as Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges Islam, The number of atheists increasing in Turkey, "Optimar'dan din-inanç anketi: Yüzde 89 Allah'ın varlığına ve birliğine inanıyor", "Uneasy neighbors in Turkey: atheism and Islam", "Turkey's Atheists Face Hostilities, Death Threats", "Atheists, the "Ultimate Other" in Turkey | Inter Press Service", "Turkey's atheists get organized – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East", "EUI Working Papers : RSCAS 2008/20 : Mediterranean Programme Series", "T.C.