April 5

After World War 1 modern Turkey emerged from the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Ataturk explained and justified certain policies regarding the removal of Islam from any significant role in public life in a speech he delivered in 1927. Such a speech went against much of Islamic thinking. Ottoman rulers wanted to lead and govern the entire Islamic world in one dafter uniting it. A state must be compelled to act justly and impartially toward all of the different religions. Respecting freedom of conscience and opinion is its obligation. Freedom of religious opinion is included in the Muslim religion. Breaking Islam into ruins, the party of Mustapha Kemal will make Islam's citizens into unbelievers after having abolished the Caliphate.