[JoeFromSidney]

I spent two semesters there as a visiting professor. I liked the country, the people, and especially my students. Things there have really gone to hell in the last fifteen years.

[elcid1970]

Sultan Erdogan is moving Turkiye from the pro-Western secularism of Kemal Ataturk toward dark Anatolian Islam. Istanbul appears to be the only enclave in the country with a Europe-oriented population.

IMO if Erdogan thought he could get away with reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque and closing the Ataturk mausoleum for indefinite repairs, he would do both.

And bring back the fez.