One insightful view on Turkey - interesting. Do we have any members who live or have lived in Turkey?

Q: In Turkey, is support for secularism considered a conservative position?

A: I have lived for about 20 years abroad and when I returned, I expected to find an Islamized Turkey under Erdogan, who has ruled the country since 2002. Things have changed. For example, discrimination against women with turbans disappeared.

Of course, there is government’s favoritism toward religious organization, and there are more religious TV shows, however secularism stands strong, and defended vigorously by the opposition.

In fact, to my surprise the US seems less secular than Turkey. In Turkey politics doesn’t revolve around religion (unless Erdogan does or says something controversial). Prostitution and abortion are still legal, and they are not talked about.

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