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This is the only thing left that connects me to Islam,&#; says Merve, showing me her bright red headscarf.

Merve teaches religion to elementary school children in Turkey. She used to be a radical believer of Islam.

&#;Until recently, I would not even shake hands with men,&#; she tells me in an Istanbul cafe. &#;But now I do not know whether there is a God or not, and I really do not care.&#;

In the 16 years that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#;s party has been in power, the number of religious high schools across Turkey has increased more than tenfold.

He has repeatedly talked of bringing up a pious generation.

But over the past few weeks, politicians and religious clerics here have been discussing whether pious young people have started to move away from religion.

One day, Merve&#;s life changed when, after waking up very depressed, she cried for hours and decided to pray.

As she prayed, she realised to her shock that she doubted God&#;s existence. &#;I thought I would either go crazy or kill myself,&#; she says. &#;The next day I realised I had lost my faith.&#;

She is not alone. One professor has been quoted as saying that more than a dozen female students wearing headscarves have come up to him to declare they are atheists in the past year or so.

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The Turkish orphans stranded after IS struggle in Iraq

BBC

When Turkish fighters joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, many brought their families with them. With the militants driven out of Iraqi cities, authorities are now struggling to determine what to do with the hundreds of wives and orphans they left behind, writes the BBC's Selin Girit.

"All I know is that they're in an orphanage in Baghdad," says Ummugulsum, speaking of her two nieces.

Every time she shows a picture, taken at a time when they used to pose happily, she caresses it like a sacred artefact.

The girls, aged 12 and nine, are now orphans.

Their parents left Turkey to join the ranks of the Islamic State group in Syria. So did their grandfather, grandmother and uncle.

Their father was killed in Raqqa. Their mother lost her life in a bombing that they both survived in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar. Only their grandmother remains alive, but there is very little she can do as she is in a prison in Iraq.

Having nowhere to go, or no immediate family member to take care of them, the girls were taken to an orphanage in Baghdad, where they now wait to be sent home.

Their aunt learned of their whereabouts only months later.

"When I go to the market and