Spent two years in Ankara and can tell you the second most dangerous time of the year:
When Turkey wins a World Cup soccer game. We’d receive alerts from the embassy to stay indoors, away from windows due to the massive amounts of lead shot into the sky from tens of thousands of balconies. One year 12 people died after being hit by falling bullets. One of our neighbors in a smaller building across the road had a full-auto and he would let her rip several times a night during the World Cup.
We were warned not to argue after a traffic accident, as most Turks were armed.
Why anybody would volunteer to go to Turkey is beyond me.
My mistake. So, Turks are armed and the Turkish police know it. The World Cup is a secular event but Erdogan is turning Turkiye toward radical Islam. The secularism of Kemal Ataturk is being swept aside & it is no idle joke that Erdogan is trying on turbans, those of the Sultan and the Caliph.
Ironic since Ataturk banned the fez and forced Turks to wear Western chapeaus. I guess Turkish women will be donning hijabs next.