In Practice of The Law Unification of Education Presidency of Religious Affairs’role

The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved the Law of Unification of Education which is an important section of the Turkish Revolution on 3 March 1924. The Law of Unification of Education took all the schools in Turkey under the control of the Ministry of National Education. According to the forth clause of the law, the school of theology and imam-hatip schools were opened but they were closed in a very short period of time. The schools weren’t closed through any law or legal arrangement. The existence of the forth clause of the Law Unification of Education continued. There is a relation between Presidency of Religious Affairs, constituted on 3 March 1924, and the schools, which were opened with the purpose of educating the high religious specialists and the people of religious services such as imam and hatip. Because religious services such as Imam-hatip and preacher were taken under the control of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, the closing of the schools, educating the people of religious services is related to Presidency of Religious Affairs. It has been tried in this study to explain the effect of the Presidency of Religious on the historical facts related to the process of the closing of the schools founded by the Law of Unification of Education.