Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sharply criticized what he described as "hostility towards Sharia," the religious law that is part of the Islamic tradition, equating it with hostility towards Islam.
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
– Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey