At the risk of getting flamed, I have to say I also feel sorry for the many conservative Turks (and at least a few of them are/were Freepers) who have to put up with the insults from both sides now.
Turkey has trended away from Ataturk's vision in recent years, but at all is lost.
Turkey was a hell hole under Attaturk - all he did was cloth them like Europeans but they Turkey still was the hell hole of Europe - the meat grinder of Christianity.