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I am a political party that takes a lot of place in our political life. As a party that founded the State of the Republic of Turkey, the CHP is the first and old political movement in the Ottoman-Turkey history to organize the people's masses on the popular political ground. As a political tradition in this sense, it has since the Alliance and Terakki been a fierce element of both the formal, non-formal and popular political history of Turkey.  This special place of the CHP in the history of Turkey has led to a lot of current and political discussions since its past. More clearly, every political party that is rival to the Political CHP has to account with the CHP to legitimize its existence and to position itself against it politically. This is possible to say for almost all political formations that have emerged since the Second Legitimate, legal and illegal. This is one of the main dynamics of popular politics in Turkey today. Therefore, from the one-party executions, to the attitude of military coups, from the left or social democracy mission of the center to the different attitudes of the Kurdish issue, especially from the 1990s to the secular-oriented politics in which the political Islam was opposed to the rise, the CHP has always been at the heart of the criticism for many years, although it has not been alone in power. Therefore, there are many discussions in the relevant academic and current literature focused on different topics related to CHP. But in recent years, especially the rise of Political Islam, the dominant theme that has been highlighted in the criticisms of the CHP by the political power bloc and civil supporters since the 28th February process and after the AKP's arrival to power, is the politics of the CHP on the issue of religion. Accordingly, the CHP or “CHP mindset” is often accused of continuous anti-religious politics by right-wing politicians, political Islamist parties, groups, communities and formations; in part, of disreligion and of abuse against religions. On the other hand, although there have been many studies and studies on the official party policies of the CHP, including those related to religion, there has not yet been a remarkable study on what the party, outside of its official policies, voters think about the religion and how the religion lives. This article aims to analyze the religious perception and practice of the ordinary CHP voter using the quantitative data of a comprehensive religious sociology research representing Turkey.

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