Muslims complain it does not allow for their religious courts.
Abolition of the religious courts followed on April 8.
A Shariah Board — as the religious courts are called — recently ordered a secular critic lashed.
In a separate action, religious courts sentenced Mr. Nouri to five years in jail for heresy.
Ataturk shut the Islamic caliphate, dissolved religious courts, outlawed mystic sects and secularized schools.
It is also overlaid with religious courts, whose jurisdiction in some instances overrides state law.
Sometimes religious courts do not fully accept the testimony of children or women, making proving molestation claims very difficult.
Generally, religious courts, or battei din, in Hebrew, handle civil, not criminal matters, including divorce, marriage, custody and property disputes.
Such ʿādahs are accepted by religious courts as legitimate local laws that must be respected by others.
The situation for Christians, 6percentt of the population, would remain burdensome, because religious courts administer family law.
This strategy paralleled the British colonial approach of allowing religious courts to handle matters of personal status.
