Relious-state relations in Turkey on the process of political, social and economical change

This research is an analysis and evaluation of the religion-state relationships in Turkey on the process of political, social and economical change. Change and development of religious-state relationships in Turkey emerged totally different from West. Church (religion), lost the sovereignty on state as the result of the social and economical change in West. There is no clergy in Islam. In addition, we did not have the economical and social process on religion-state relationship in our country like West. Because of these reasons, religion-state relationships were tried to shaped from top to the bottom in our country.In this research, change in religion-state relationships were studied on historical process, religion-state relationships were explained in periods among Turks and in Republic of Turkey and religion-state relationship in administrative and legal regulations were explained. In the analiysis of religion-state relationships in Republic of Turkey, political, social and economical structures of the periods were also taken into consideration.Nowadays a big change has been living in series of social, economical, political and cultural fields with the process of globalization and it also effects the religion-state relationships. In this situation to achieve the concretion of the society, religion should be one of the tool of this aim, instead of the argument of politics.