Ana Sayfa Reuters'ın gözünden fotoğraflarla 'imam hatip dönüşümü': Laik veliler endişeli Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip School walk along a corridor as they leave their classroom for a break in Ankara

Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip School walk along a corridor as they leave their classroom for a break in Ankara

Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip School walk along a corridor as they leave their classroom for a break in Ankara November 18, 2014.Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms which President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in “imam hatip” schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month. Picture taken November 18, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)

Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip School wait for the arrival of President Tayyip Erdogan for the opening ceremony in Ankara
Students of Tevfik Ileri Imam Hatip School walk past a statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of secular Turkey, in Ankara