Turkey, supposedly, has been taken over by the Islamists. The alleged one-time mainly-secular Muslim country is no more. Bah. Turkey was never secular, not to the ordinary Turk.
I lived there, in the capital city of Ankara, 1961-62, and then off and on in 1963-64, when the city was usually under martial law. Portions of the Turkish military were staging periodic, unsuccessful revolts. It was forbidden to be on the streets after dark. They were patrolled by Turkish soldiers with old, American M-1 rifles.
One afternoon, a young American Air Force sergeant, an amateur Christian evangelist from Tennessee, staked himself a position on a safety island in the middle of Ankara’s main drag, Ataturk Boulevard, named for the man who supposedly inspired Turkish secularism.
The sergeant began handing out free New Testaments to passing drivers with a wish for their personal peace. They were having none of it. The sergeant was instantly mobbed, kicked to the asphalt, and beaten bloody.
Turkish police stood by until the sergeant was unconscious and then they arrested him. The U.S. State Department decided that publicity about Turkish intolerance was not “useful” to our foreign policy of the time. The sergeant was quietly spirited out of jail and flown out of the country.
Which is why I say Turkish secularism is, was, and probably will ever be, a myth. Whatever the Turkish elite claims to believe, the Turkish mob worships a looting, mass-murdering, pedophile named Mo in the most intolerant religion in the world. They have never had much patience with any other. And now they have an American president as their apologist.
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That sergeant was clearly suicidal. Or stupid, same thing.
Yes, I remember the general amazement at his behavior at the time in the tiny American community. But he lived (somewhat the worst for wear) to evangelize another day.