{"id":282819,"date":"2026-02-19T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=282819"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:01:22","slug":"2010-reaction-to-the-secularism-declaration-from-ahmet-hakandan-who-wrote-articles-on-why-we-should-be-secular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/2010-reaction-to-the-secularism-declaration-from-ahmet-hakandan-who-wrote-articles-on-why-we-should-be-secular\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmet Hakan, who wrote \u2019Why we should be secular\u2018 in 2010, reacts to \u2019Secularism Declaration\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c... The principle of \u201csecularism\u201d was invented so that religion and politics could be separated by a proper line.<\/em>
\nYeah, yeah, yeah...<\/em>
\nReligion and politics must be separated by a proper line.<\/em>
\nBecause if this is not done...<\/em>
\nIt will be as Prof. \u015eaban \u015eim\u015fek, who writes in Yeni Akit Newspaper, says: \u201cThe sects will fight for a place in the state\u201d.<\/em>
\nSo... Religion is used to gain political rent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The above lines are from Ahmet Hakan's column in 2010.<\/p>\n

Explaining why secularism, which some people oppose by calling it \u2018irreligion\u2019, is indispensable, Ahmet Hakan, in his 2016 article, reacted to \u0130smail Kahraman, the then Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, who suggested that the principle of \u2019secularism\u2018 be removed from the constitution, \u201cWill Adnan Hodja's Islam or C\u00fcbbeli Ahmet's Islam dominate the state and society?\u201d<\/em> He was asking.<\/p>\n

And he continued his reaction as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an environment where there is not an iota of oppression, not an iota of oppression, not an iota of victimization in the name of secularism...<\/em><\/p>\n

Even and even...<\/em><\/p>\n

In an environment where even the illegal houses of the Ensar Foundation are objected to not in the name of \u201cLAW\u201d but on the grounds that children are raped...<\/em><\/p>\n

How can we explain Ismail Kahraman's anti-secularist outburst?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This time those calling for secularism reacted<\/h3>\n

H\u00fcrriyet Editor-in-Chief Ahmet Hakan, who defended the principle of secularism in 2010 and 2016 and reacted against opponents of secularism, this time targeted 168 names who signed the \u2019Declaration on Secularism\u2019.<\/p>\n

He argued that the signatories of the declaration were \u2018longing for the old Turkey\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch declarations benefit the AK Party the most and the CHP is aware of this,\" Ahmet Hakan said, criticizing those who signed the declaration:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ay\u015fe Kulins, Melike Demira\u011fs, M\u00fcjde Arlar\u0131, Rutkay Azizs who signed the declaration have no interest in convincing the majority of the public.<\/em><\/p>\n

The majority of the people hated it, distanced themselves from it, embraced the AK Party saying \u201cYand\u0131m Allah\u201d, etc... They don't give a damn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why should I?<\/em><\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan wins again, these intellectuals publish declarations again and life continues to flow like a breeze for them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Halk\u0131n b\u00fcy\u00fck \u00e7o\u011funlu\u011fu nefret etmi\u015f, uzakla\u015fm\u0131\u015f, \u201cyand\u0131m Allah\u201d diyerek AK Parti\u2019ye sar\u0131lm\u0131\u015f falan… Zerre umurlar\u0131nda de\u011fil bunlar\u0131n.”<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289],"class_list":{"0":"post-282819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gundem","8":"tag-manset"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282821,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282819\/revisions\/282821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}