ABSTRACT
TWO MYTHS have sprung up and become established concerning the nature of the secularism emerging from the Kemalist Revolution. One is the belief that this secularism meant the separation of religion and state after the fashion of French laicism; the other is the belief that it was a policy of irreligion aimed at the systematic liquidation of Islam. In this chapter we shall examine the nature of this secularism together with these two contentions concerning it.
