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Name:   MrHodja The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   "Moderate Islamists?" in Turkey
Date:   7/8/2010 11:07:24 AM

And we have an active Foreign Military Sales program going with them. 

I spent two years in Turkey and they indeed walk a tightrope between wanting to be Western without being so Western that they rile their Muslim population. 

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk took Turkey from the dark ages into modernization back in the early 1900s...and he is revered in that country.  Still, it is a Muslim country (for the year we lived downtown five times a day we had to listed to the mezin (sp?) sing that awful chant from the mosque loudspeakers). Thankfully we were able to live on the AF bases the last year we were there. 

Unlike other hard-line Muslim countries Turkey tolerates other religions.  My secretary was a Jewish Turk (Turkish Jew?), and one of the many earthquakes they had while we were there flushed the catholic priest and his girlfriend out into the street about 5 AM one day...:>).

So, having lived there I would agree that Turkey is a "moderate" Muslim country.
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