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When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938) founded the modern Turkish Republic in 1923, he sought to expunge Islam from public life and make secularism the foundation of the new nation-state he was trying to construct from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. For decades, Turkey was touted as the prime example of a predominantly Muslim country that was both secular and had a functioning parliamentary system.
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