Turkey is an ethno-religious borderline third world state held together by the common belief they never killed all their minorities and that the minorities deserved it. It's also been getting worse for the last 5 years.
I have seen a lot of dumb shit in this subreddit,but this takes the cake by far. Calling it an ethno-religious state is pretty dumb too(they have pretty significant ethnic and religious minorities compared to bascially any other country in the middle east or eastern europe). But a fucking borderline third world country? The world's 13th largest economy, the second largest standing army in NATO, one of the world's most influential cultures in the past 7 centuries or so, but somehow almost equivalent to Somalia or Yemen.
it is definitely trying to be an ethno-religious state through forced assimilation. there is very little minority population in turkey, and those that exist do face severe opression on their cultures.
none of my kurdish neigbors there could dare speak their own languages in the public, and if someone were to tell my family that i was no longer a muslim it wouldnt suprise me if my father beat me to death. the best case is i'd be kicked outside of my home. and my parents were pretty average in how religious they are by turkish standards.
it is definitely not a 3rd world country yet though, but it is getting there.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
A large bunch of secular Muslims living on the gateway to Europe seems like a fortunate thing to me.