Turkey is schizophrenic, they worship Ataturk in the same manner that they worship the Quran, and never see how it's contradictory. Well every country is "schizophrenic" and pulled by different influences anyways, but it's very pronounced in Turkey. The cliche is that it is between "west" and "east", culturally, but you have the pro-"western" factions, the pro-"eastern" factions, and mixes of everything in between.
Koyama if you honestly believe that the Sultanate of Rûm was "liberating" the orthodox you have a serious comprehension issue. If this is true, where is the large orthodox church of turkey today? Why did the orthodox Patriarch leave, if he was so damn happy to be liberated from evil Byz emperors?
Give me 1 example that are not jihadist muslim country except Turkey?
That will give you the answer of why we are schizophrenic.
Give me 1 example except Germany ( which they attacked first ) that invaded by all of their neighborhoods in the past at the same time.
That will give you the answer of why we need to adore Ataturk and at the same time Quran.
Sultanate of Rum Ottoman Empire libarated Ortodox people , Do u know that we could assimilate all of the places that we counquered ? Instead of that we gave them free choice to live their religion and life.
Orthodox Patriarch is still in Istanbul , called " Fener-Rum Patriarch " . And and total churches in turkey are more than mosques total number in Europe.At the moment i can remember many churches , kadikoy , taksim ( which got a joke in turkish named Saint Antuan ; Sen antuansan bende erhanım in english Saint pronounced as Sen in turkish which is "you" so the sentence is If you are Antuan then i am Erhan(name) " ) balat , fatih , trabzon , iznik , izmir , capadocia...
Please do not talk about like an adult that is proffesional politician and socialog because i have no idea till 1 year which friend of mine told me that its forbidden in Berlin to hear "Ezan".
You can always hear church bells in turkey btw.
tl ; dr
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