ISTANBUL — Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday announced a set of reforms that will grant greater rights to the country’s Alevi minority, including the legal recognition of their houses of worship.

Traditional Alevi religious schools and houses of worship, known as cemevis, will be granted full legal status in Turkey, Mr. Davutoglu said. He did not elaborate on what the exact legal status would be.

Turkey’s government has long refused to officially recognize Alevi houses of worship, arguing that Alevism, which is rooted in Shiite beliefs, is a branch of Islam and not a separate religion.

“There is a single house of worship in Islam — the mosque,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then the prime minister, said in a speech in 2012. Cemevis, he said, were cultural houses.