A video posted by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the opposition leader and candidate in Turkey's presidential election, sparked a wide reaction. Some considered it a break from one of Turkey's secular taboos established by the founder of the state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The vast majority of the Turkish people profess Islam according to the Hanafi school (one of the Sunni schools) The constitution that was drafted and its subsequent amendments, "Ataturk" after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, did not prohibit any personal religious affiliation of politicians.