Police clashed with protesters outside Turkey’s parliament on Tuesday, amid outrage at a call for the secular country to adopt a religious constitution.<br /><br /> Demonstrators gathered in Ankara to express their fury at the controversial proposal from <br />parliamentary speaker Ismail Kahraman, a leading member of the ruling Islamist-rooted AK party.<br /><br /> Security forces broke up the rally. Dozens of people were detained.<br /><br /> Kahraman’s call for a religious constitution contradicts the founding principles of the modern republic.<br /><br /> “For one thing, the new constitution should not have secularism,” he said late on Monday.<br /><br /> “There are three countries in the world with secularism in their constitution – France, Ireland and Turkey…<br />Our constitution should not avoid the concept of a religious constitution. It should discuss religion.”<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> Parliament speaker’s call to remove secularism from Turkey’s constitution sparks outrage https://t.co/cDINTRpklT pic.twitter.com/mTqvInkhj3— Hürriyet Daily News (@HDNE
