Secular Pakistan

[1947]

Re: Secular Pakistan

@Faris_Udeen

Sorry to burst the bubble but Turkey is drifting towards Islamism again, in the last polls on the matter the Turkish public were split East to West of the Bosphorus with the East side holding the majority and wanting to return the law to conservative Islamist leanings… I have close ties with many friends in Turkey and the country is in a political mess with people aligning themselves more to the conservatives and calling for Islamism and closer ties to Iran. Turkey is losing the secularist stand and I think it might well be a new Islamic system in place instead with not a totalitarian Islamic republic but a republic with Islamic ideals in place instead of outright secularism.

Turkey is a smart and mature enough country to know that going the theocratic way will stop them from entering the EU and also stop their economic growth which could lead them to not become a fully developed country. Right now Turkey is at a spot where it can become fully developed in a matter of a few years. Becoming a religious state is the last thing they would want to dampen their growth. Just a few months a go Turkish government tried to ban alcohol but protesters in terms of thousands came on the streets with beer mugs and protested. The public are very liberal and tolerant and would never want to become an islamic state. Turkey’s main goal for the future is become fully developed and a member of EU. They don’t want to go the Iran, a once liberal and tolerant country turned into a violent religious state controlled by a monster.