Turkish secularism has always been unique because Mustafa Kemal Ataturk instituted a number of reforms to bring religion and its practice under the vestiges of a centralised state -- something that went beyond the concept and practice of secularism (i.e. separation of church and state) as instituted in the West.
Turski sekularizam uvijek je bio jedinstven, jer je Mustafa Kemal Ataturk uveo mnoštvo reformi kako bi vjeru i njezino prakticiranje stavio u sjenu centralizirane države -- čime se ide još dalje od koncepta i prakse sekularizma (odnosno odvojenosti crkve i države) kakva postoji na Zapadu.