In Turkey, the military has long been seen as the guardian of the secular order and the enforcer of a strong separation between Islam and the state, but it has been severely weakened by the coup plot case.
And when that happens, it's important to confront it and have a debate because it violates the secular order, the separation of state and church.
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.
In Ankara, they raided the offices of the state broadcaster, TRT, and within minutes had ordered the newsreader to announce officially that the military was in control of Turkey, in response to Erdoğan's erosion of secular order.
It has broken down rules of the old secular order that now permit the wide public expression of religion, seen in the proliferation of women wearing head scarves, by the conservative masses who make up the prime minister's constituency.
In Ankara, they raided the offices of the state broadcaster, TRT, and within minutes had ordered the newsreader to announce officially that the military was in control of Turkey, in response to Erdoğan's erosion of the secular order.
Secularism was designed to create a peaceful world order, but the church was so intricately involved in the economic, political and cultural structures of society that the secular order could only be established with a measure of violence.
Yet the opposition, led by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the newly elected leader of the pro-secular Republican People's party (CHP), has sought to portray the amendments as a final assault against the secular order introduced by the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
It is Hinduism's variegated quality that allows the Hindu right to make the argument that Hinduism is a kind of secularism, and that, therefore, Indian Muslims' adherence to their exclusive monotheism amounts to a refusal of a secular order... Describes how Muslim personal law differs radically under the Indian system from Hindu law.
It is Hinduism's variegated quality that allows the Hindu right to make the argument that Hinduism is a kind of secularism, and that, therefore, Indian Muslims' adherence to their exclusive monotheism amounts to a refusal of a secular order... Describes how Muslim personal law differs radically under the Indian system from Hindu law..
