In the 16 years that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party has been in power, the number of religious high schools across Turkey has increased more than tenfold. [...]
But over the past few weeks, politicians and religious clerics here have been discussing whether pious young people have started to move away from religion. [...]
While there are no statistics or polls to indicate how widespread this is, anecdotal evidence is enough to worry Turkey's leaders. [...]
Turkey's top religious cleric, the head of Religious Affairs Directorate Ali Erbas, has also denied the spread of deism and atheism among the country's conservative youth. "No member of our nation would ever adhere to a such a deviant and void concept," he said.
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