Abstract

The education based upon mores in Turk communities of Middle Asia, started to become institutionalized with the adoption of Islam. However, the religious content in education was intensified during the institutionalization of the scholar system. No significant development took place with regards to the secularization of education until the renovation period in the Ottoman Empire. With the renovation acts, a duality was started with the co-existence of schools giving education with modern techniques and giving religious education .This dual practice came to an end with Unification of Education Law in the Republic period. With 1982 Constitution, which made the –previously selective- Religious Culture and Ethics courses obligatory.

Key words: System of education, history of education, process of Laicism