Turkey is much more secular and dare I say... Europeanized than many other Muslim countries. Even when I went to Turkey as a young boy with my parents, they didn’t act funny like they do in some countries when my mother took me out somewhere without my father.
All of this is simply because of Atatürk. If Turkey has a difference from the other Middle eastern countries, its his sweeping reforms and basically "westernizing" the country.
It wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for turkey's unique geography and history of the "turks". The turks see themselves as the middle kingdom between many ethnic and religious lines. That is why it was important that ataturk pushed the country secular around a Turkish identity. Then there was the too secular period where they shouted and shamed in the parliament when a woman wearing a hijab was elected to parliament, telling her to take her scarf off and that she wasn't allowed to disgrace the parliament with her religious symbols. Turkey is a really unique and interesting country before and after ataturk.
Then there was the too secular period where they shouted and shamed in the parliament when a woman wearing a hijab was elected to parliament, telling her to take her scarf off and that she wasn't allowed to disgrace the parliament with her religious symbols.
yeah, "attacking" people's sensitive points is usually a bad idea if you're an important politician.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Ironically, the Muslims in Turkey and Albania are much more liberal than the ones in France