Examples of using Secularists in English and their translations into Turkish
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Fundamentalists and secularists.
The secularists and the religious, say it together.
Despite these achievements, however, secularists remain concerned about AKP's long-term goals.
Secularists have called a series of protests, drawing millions.
Although the AKP has consistently denied it, the secularists fear that the party has a hidden religious agenda.
Turkish secularists, though, are convinced that he shares a hidden Islamist agenda.
Within Turkey itself,ISIL is believed to have caused increasing political polarisation between secularists and Islamists.
Secularists in Turkey are uncomfortable with the idea of Gul as president because of his political roots.
This summer's general elections will see secularists mount another challenge to the AKP's moderate brand of political Islam.
So we have to ask what the largest gathering in history of atheists,humanists, secularists, free thinkers.
Basbug's remarks echo secularists' concerns about the AKP's increasing"authoritarian" tendencies after its 2007 electoral victory.
The trend is towards sharper polarization in Turkish politics andrenewed tension between the government and secularists.
One reason is that secularists in Turkey worry about the Islamic roots of the ruling Justice and Development Party AKP.
Some view Ergenekon as apolitically-motivated case backed by the AKP to weaken secularists by linking them to extremism.
Such actions, secularists charge, are proof that the AKP is simply the old Islamist wolf dressed up in moderate conservative clothing.
The CHP, which assumed the role of protector of the secular system in the new Turkish political landscape,disappointed secularists by opposing the ruling AKP.
The secularists have become entrenched and more fanatic in their views," including their dogmatic pursuit of state controlled secularism.
He did voice concern, however,that the referendum has contributed to the polarisation between secularists, who opposed the changes, and religious Turks.
Secularists in Turkey have staged a series of protests against the Justice and Development Party, which has roots in political Islam. Getty Images.
In Turkey, meanwhile, Obama's words were welcomedboth by political Islamists and secularists-- the two main camps in a fractious debate over the country's direction.
Secularists and liberals fear that checks and balances in the democratic system could be undermined if the way of electing the president is changed.
Prime Minister Recep TayyipErdogan linked the sweep to the long-running investigation into a shadowy network of hard-line nationalists and staunch secularists called Ergenekon.
Secularists worry that if Gul is elected president, he will help his key ally, Erdogan, boost the role of religion in all spheres of life.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed parliament's vote as a triumph for democracy,but Turkey's secularists see it as a threat to the separation of religion and state.
Secularists have not welcomed the idea of directly electing the president, seeing the AKP's move as another threat to checks and balances.
With growing Turkish-Kurdish tensions and a potential civil war-like situation evolving,we will see religious conservatives and the secularists moving closer together in opposition to the Kurds," says Karaveli.
This success has caused some secularists to endorse the postponing of elections, and"frightening many secularists and women who fear for their place in the new Tunisia.
Last week, police arrested 18 alleged anti-government secularists, including a former deputy chairman of their own special operations unit and an active-duty army lieutenant colonel.
Secularists also fear that following his ascent to the presidency-- a largely ceremonial post, except for key veto power-- the AKP will renew its efforts to lift the existing Muslim headscarf ban.
You hypocritical secularist!