Religion

Secular Turkey is on its way out. The religious have slowly, but steadily moved in to replace the political system with an Islamic one. When I was stationed there, Turkey was a secular nation, trying to maintain its separation from Islam. That worked for many years, but is rapidly failing now.

The population might be getting less religious, but the government is becoming more and more like an Islamic state.

It looks to me as though a secular government is a dying dream at this point for Turks. We should be paying attention, not because we care about Turkey. We don't. Because we need to prevent our own nation from being converted into a religious state. We're on that path right now, from what I can see.

More's the pity.