Talk:Religion in Turkey
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[edit] 99.8?
99.8% is a very dubious number and is probably very much on the higher side. More than a result of a rigorous polling, it seems to originate from a comparison of the population of "officially recognized religious minorities" to the general population, including everyone else in the muslim community. Nevermind that these official minorities are underreported, it fails to account for foreign nationals living in Turkey, or members of unrecognized religious minorities (such as ethnic Turks of Protestant Christian faith or people of Yazidi faith), and it also fails to account for people of no religious affiliations, ie atheists. That figure being cited so often, and being just the same figure down to the decimal point for as long as I can remember, it is clear to me that it is more misleading than informative. An alternative to the sentence in the text could have been a something like "Although %99.8 of the citizens of Turkey are of muslim turkish ancestry, Turkey has no officially recognized state religion and the secularity of the government is protected by the constitution", but a start like "It is estimated that over 99% of turkish population ..." would be much more acceptable.
- Well, I added "nominally". I have been trying for months to find an actual survey on this, but there are none. If I put in anything else that would also be a wild guess. These are the best figures that there are. If you ever find a good source or a survey (books etc are not good, because they all differ in their guess work), please bring it in. As for the foreigners, they do not quite fall under the scope of this article since they are not Turkish citizens are are considered temporary residents. Their inclusion in the statistics can skew the surveys since they can simply leave after five months. As for Yezidis. There are not many left in Turkey btw, so they wouldn't make up such a great number in any case. I will try to find more sources though.. Baristarim 16:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contradicts Islam in Turkey
Nominally, 97.4% of the Turkish population is Muslim
About 99% of the population is officially claimed to be Muslim...
Which, if any is correct?--Cory Kohn 11:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Latest Numbers (please compile this into the main page)
According to recent polls, surveys, and studies there is a growing number of atheists and agnostics in Turkey:
7.2% say that they do not practice any religion (ie. atheists or agnostics)
(the source of one of these studies is http://www.stargazete.com/index.asp?haberid=147097 )
The real number of atheists is much higher as it is not easy to freely declare yourself as an atheist in a predominantly Muslim country. A collection of results of such recent studies gives the following result:
Religion in Turkey:
Sunnites : 55.71 % Shiites : 1.84 % Alevites : 35.00 % Atheists etc. : 7.20 % Christians : 0.20 % Jews : 0.04 % Other : 0.01 % ------------------------ Total : 100.00 %
The number of atheists and agnostics is even much more but it is not easy to declare yourself as such in a predominantly Muslim country...
In Turkey about 7.7% are dangerous Sunnite Islamists. They want an Islamic State and Sharia Laws like that in Iran or Saudi Arabia...
Using the above numbers, the total number of muslims in Turkey is less than 92.55 %. But I guess there are at least twice that much atheists, so then the numbers become:
Sunnites : 47.91 % Shiites : 1.84 % Alevites : 35.00 % Atheists etc. : 15.00 % (my 'educated guestimate') Christians : 0.20 % Jews : 0.04 % Other : 0.01 % ----------------------- Total : 100.00 %
So then the real number of muslims in Turkey is about 84.75%
References and details for the above numbers (first table) can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish/msg/981c63f4ac1221d6 http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish/msg/2fd41c2e0a654d93 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.237.37 (talk) 09:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
