No, you don't get it. Turkey is NOT officially Muslim. It is officially, and really quite militantly, secular. The government has spent a lot of military effort on keeping Islamists in their place, and even though Islamists win elections, the Turkish Army stands there as a menace against any introduction of formal Islamism.
Hagia Sophia is NOT a mosque anymore.
It's a museum.
The Turks do not let Muslims have religious services there either.
Turkey is actually the brightest spot in the whole Muslim world, because it's the only part that has itself, from within, declared that secularism takes precedence over Islam, and has been quite explicit and militant about that for three-quarters of a century now. It isn't as though the Islamists haven't fought that too. But they haven't won.
If Iraq or Iran became like Turkey, it would be a vast improvement.
Yea, I get it Turkey is 99% Muslim official or not and that's not kosher in the long or short run for the West.
Grant it, Turkey is not a card carrying member of the Axis of Evil, but jihadist fundamentalism is catching on there as it does in any nation which has a majority Muslim population. It's a spreading cancer infecting the youth of the Islamic world.
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