secularist
sek yuh luh rist
- n an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education
- Despite secularist fears of its Islamist roots, Erdogan's party gets even more support than it did five years ago.
- Just a few hours after the arrests, Turkey's top court another secularist stronghold convened to deliberate on the case for banning the AKP and its senior politicians .
- But the hard-line secularist Republican People's Party, or CHP, reacted harshly.