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Turkey is a secular state with no official state religion; the Turkish Constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience.[110] [111] Islam is the dominant religion of Turkey with 99 percent described as Muslim,[112][113] though research firms suggest the actual Muslim figure is around 98%,[114] or 97%.[115] There are less than 100,000 people following religions other than Islam,[116] mainly Christians, mostly Armenian Apostolic, Assyrian Church of the East and Greek Orthodox (64,000 people) and Jews, mainly Sephardi (26,000 people).[117][118]

Though there are no exact figures on religious sects, according to a 2006 survey, 82% were identified as Sunni Hanafi, 9.1% Sunni Shafi'i, and 5.7% were Alevi.[119] Though academics suggest the Alevi population may be from 15 to 20 million.[120] [121] Alevi community is sometimes classified within Twelver Shi'a Islam.[122] According to Aksiyon magazine, the number of Twelvers (excluding Alevis) is 3 million (4.2%), and they live in Istanbul, Iğdır, Kars, Ankara, İzmir, Manisa, Çorum, Muğla, Ağrı and Aydın.[123] There are also some Sufi practitioners.[124] The highest Islamic religious authority is the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı), it interprets the Hanafi school of law, and is responsible for regulating the operation of the country's 80,000 registered mosques and employing local and provincial imams.[125] The role of religion has been controversial debate over the years since the formation of Islamist parties.[126] Turkey was founded upon a strict secular constitution which forbids the influence of any religion which includes Islam, sensitive issues such as the wearing of the Hijab is banned in universities and public or government buildings which some view it as a symbol of Islam, though there have been efforts to lift the ban.[127][128][129][130][131]

Based on a nationwide survey in 2007, it showed 96.8% of Turkish citizens have a religion, while 3.2% are irreligious and atheists.[115] According to a 2009 survey on religion, even though 88 percent of the population declared belief on basic Islamic principles, only 38 percent actually practiced Islamic Prayer more than once a week.[132] According to a Pew Research Center report in 2002, 65% of the people believe religion is very important,[133] while according to a Eurobarometer poll in 2005, 95% of citizens responded that they believe there is a God.[134]

The Orthodox Church has been headquartered in Istanbul since the fourth century AD. The Bahá'í Faith in Turkey has roots in Bahá'u'lláh's, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, being exiled to Constantinople, current-day Istanbul, by the Ottoman authorities. Bahá'ís cannot register with the government officially[135] but there are probably 10[136] to 20[137] thousand Bahá'ís, and around a hundred Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assemblies in Turkey

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