what’s up with Turkey. Do the leaders respect elections? this guy’s a wannabe Caliphate leader.
Turkey is two countries within a common border. I was stationed there in the late 80’s. Western Turkey was beautiful, very similar to Southern Italy and the Turks there were well educated, and mostly indistinguishable from other Mediterranean groups of people. You could compare them to the highly secular Yugoslavians that happened to be allegedly Muslim. (Blue eyed Ataturk IIRC grew up in what became Yugoslavia)
Eastern Turks...not so much. There has been huge amounts of immigration from backwards muslim countries into Turkey since I was there. Nowadays, even though I have some potential contacts in Turkey, I wouldn’t step foot there. There’s too much of a chance of ending up on Youtube getting your head chopped off.
Yes. They respect elections. This election definitely moves Turkey closer to the West.