Original sentence: " Turkey's actions related with religion is carefully analyzed and evaluated through the Ministry for Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı).Ministry for Religious Affairs execute the works concerning the beliefs, worship, and ethics of Islam, enlighten the public about their religion, and administer the sacred worshiping places.Secularism in Turkey, the Turkish laïcité, was initiated with the Turkish Constitution of 1924 as a part of westernization movement and continued with the Atatürk's Reforms which set the administrative and political requirements to create a modern, democratic state aligned with the Kemalist ideology.This includes Islam, which more than 95 percent of citizens are Muslims, at least nominally.Turkey neither recognizes an official religion nor, it claims, promotes any.Turkey's "laïcité" does not call for a strict separation of church and state, but describes the state's stance as one of "active neutrality
Edited sentence: "...to execute the works concerning the beliefs, worship, and ethics of Islam, enlighten the public about their religion, and administer the sacred worshiping places.) A key issue is that of the role of the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ("Ministry of Religious Affairs"), which is considered the highest Islamic authority in the country.Although more than 95 percent of Turkey's citizens are Muslims, at least nominally, the state neither recognizes an official religion nor, it claims, promotes any.Its official duties are.Kemalist ideology, however, does not call for a strict separation of church and state, but describes the state's stance as one of "active neutrality.The principle was one of his "Six Arrows" (along with Republicanism, Populism, Reformism, Nationalism, and Statism).Turkey's tradition of official secularism (or laiklik, from the French laïcité) began in 1937, when Atatürk introduced it as a means of curtailing the power of religious authorities (which he felt to be opposed to his program of Westernization)