As Turkey successfully transformed from the religion-based former Ottoman Empire into a modern nation-state with a very strong separation of state and religion, an increase in the modes of artistic expression followed.
Da Tyrkiet vellykket ændrede sig fra det religionsbaserede tidligere Osmanniske Rige til en moderne nationalstat med en stærk adskillelse af stat og religion, fulgte en stigning i de kunstneriske udtryksformer.