Turkey at the shores of purgatory
With hearts pounding for the (Sunni) Muslim paradise but minds not too silly to risk a (Shiite) Muslim hell, officialdom in Ankara is going through the country’s century-old conundrum: Unfortunately, Muslim Turkey is privately viewed as an “infidel land” both by Wahhabi (or other fellow) Sunni Arabs and by the Shiite (not-so-fellow) Persians. It is simple to understand. For the Wahhabi and other Arab Sunni supremacists, Turkey, despite its all-too-willing Islamists, is too Western, too secular, too infidel and too un-Arab. For the Shiite supremacists, despite its all-too-willing pro-Muslim-solidarity rhetoric, Turkey is too Western, too secular, too infidel and too Sunni.
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