Sentence examples for secular legacy from inspiring English sources

Turks revere Ataturk, whose secular legacy is jealously guarded by the army.

Yet millions of Turks, who have long revered the armed forces as custodians of Ataturk's secular legacy, cheered the coup.

The supposed allure of communism for young Turks worried the country's generals, who then as now saw themselves as trustees of Kemal Ataturk's western-oriented, secular legacy.

It is fitting, given today's arguments over his secular legacy, that it was Ataturk who turned it into a museum in 1935.

However desirable it may be to preserve Ataturk's secular legacy, that cannot come at the expense of overriding the normal process of democracy even if that process produces bad, ineffective, corrupt or mildly Islamist governments.

And yet, despite her fanatical tendencies, there was something curiously modern about her... To place the blame for the world's misfortunes on our own heads was Mother Teresa's lasting, secular legacy.

The Republican People's Party (CHP), with its secular, Kemalist legacy, improved on its last showing, but gained only a quarter of the vote.

In France, the battle between the ideals of secular republicanism, the legacy of the 18th-century Enlightenment and the revolution of 1789 have been a central battleground ever since.

The legacy of secular policies, the repression of the religious impulse in the country in post-independence Tunisia, and the fragile security situation in the post-Arab spring have produced deep struggles between forces of secularism, religion, and radicalism.

The Islamist-rooted AK Party, founded by Erdogan and in power since 2002, has long had testy relations with the military, which for decades saw itself as the ultimate guardian of Turkey's secular order and the legacy of the nation's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Mali has been officially secular since its independence, a legacy of French colonialism.