Islam - “As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be ...”.
The truly dreadful aspect of the situation is that as a member of NATO, if Sultan Erdogan pushes the Russians too far, and gets into a war with them, he’ll demand the rest of NATO to join on his side.
Turkey has been kept out of the European economic community during the entire post WWII era.
Could it be because...they don’t act very Western or European?
As a NATO member Turkey has always been at dagger’s point with Greece, and Erdogan wants to scrap its peace treaty with Israel. And reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque.
He jokingly refers to Islam in Turkey as “Shariah Lite”.