Sunday, July 03, 2011
Turkey does it right, part 2
Following up on this.
Nice BBC feature this morning, focused mainly on Istanbul as the East/West cultural bridge. Good overall history of Turkey, including some surprising facts. Under the rulers who followed the secular tradition of Kemal Atatürk, Christians had a harder life than they do under the more recent semi-Islamist rulers. Why? Not because of religion as such. Because the Christians in Turkey are mainly Greeks, and the Atatürk line was anti-Greek.
Nice BBC feature this morning, focused mainly on Istanbul as the East/West cultural bridge. Good overall history of Turkey, including some surprising facts. Under the rulers who followed the secular tradition of Kemal Atatürk, Christians had a harder life than they do under the more recent semi-Islamist rulers. Why? Not because of religion as such. Because the Christians in Turkey are mainly Greeks, and the Atatürk line was anti-Greek.
Labels: Turkey
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