"The “Turkish Question” Remains
By Allen Wolfe
In early May, the streets of Istanbul were filled with tens of thousands of protestors. The walkways were flooded with red as Turkish secularists waved their country’s flag. This was the third largest secularist protest in a month that contested the Republic’s religious fanaticism. Carrying portraits of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern day Turkey, protestors sent a message to the government that they say is upholding increasingly more Islamic values. Mass mobilization of Turks from rural areas into the secularist urban centers has raised concern among the predominantly secularist citizens that already occupy most large cities. They are concerned that lack of religious freedom in Turkey is the reason why the country was recently excluded from the European Union (EU)."
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