Turkey says new Constitution to be secular

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Soothing rattled nerves of secularists in Turkey, who were irked by comments the speaker of the Parliament made Monday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu made reassurances Wednesday that its new constitution will guarantee secularism. The speaker, Ismail Kahraman, had appealed for a religious constitution for the Muslim-majority nation. In a televised speech, Davutoğlu said: “Secularism will feature…