Religion is one of the mechanisms that are used for controlling the public. If the religion is used for controlling the public, there is no freedom there.
Turkish nation had been pressed by the religion and religious power for centuries so we got weaker and weaker. The worst point was that this religious power was used by someone to control Turkish public. We have the same situation today. That’s why the secularism is very important.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk aimed at teaching the religions in a proper way. He knows when an individual practices the religion in a true way, that person will be free. The state can’t have a religious side, religion is between the God and the person.
Always Atatürk..