To: dfwgator
Western Turkey is kind of secular and Europeanized. But these people are becoming the minority due to the more fundamentalist Kurdish Turks in Eastern Turkey. Mark Styne laid out how Turkish demographics are putting the religiously conservative Kurds and fundamentalists in power
30 posted on
09/14/2014 12:51:46 PM PDT by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: dennisw
Makes you wonder if Turkey will split up in the future.
32 posted on
09/14/2014 1:17:39 PM PDT by
dfwgator
To: dennisw
Western Turkey is kind of secular and Europeanized. But these people are becoming the minority due to the more fundamentalist Kurdish Turks in Eastern Turkey. Mark Styne laid out how Turkish demographics are putting the religiously conservative Kurds and fundamentalists in power The Kurds most emphatically do not support Erdogan and his Islamists. In fact have carried out terror attacks against his campaign events. The Kurds vote for BDP which is a secular, socialist party.
The Kurds are strongest in the south east of the country (green). Erdogan's AKP party is the yellow/brown. The party of Ataturk (CHP) is the red.
36 posted on
09/14/2014 1:39:24 PM PDT by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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