@Nein2.0
No, I am not. Porn sites are banned in Turkey and they just banned alcohol sales. It is natural you dont know these because you live in Australia. Yeah, there are restrictions in Turkey. Based on a religion.
There is no such world. I can drink, eat wherever I want, whenever I want. I dont have to restrict myself because of your religion. There are already sufficient laws about people getting drunk and irritating their surrounding. If you dont want to get effected by the sight or smell of my food or drink then stay inside your house. This has nothing to do with respect. It is time you learn to respect others. Asking others to restrict themselves isnt expecting respect, it is islamofascism. If I come up with a religion that demands others to kiss my penis, will you do it to respect me?
Why do you Muslims have this never ending desire of interfering with other peoples lifes? If you dont like it, dont do it. Why are you feeling the need of interfering with what I do in my house? Why is the state so curious at entering under my roof?
and you never stop talking about ''you have to respect! you have to respect!''. There is only one people not respecting others and it is you people.
Are you aware how we avoided a civil war only by an inch in 2016? Because Erdogan created himself a cult of personality, took all the power on himself and extremely polarized the nation; if Gulenists(who became so strong due to him) managed to kill him that night Turkey would be no different than Syria and Mali.
And he still didnt learn his lesson, he is still insisting on not obeying Ataturks teaching on tariqahs. He still supports many.
In a normal country where there is the principle of seperate forces, a strong bureucracy even if the head of the state gets assassinated it wouldnt be a huge risk. But if that head of the state accumulates all the power on himself, tries to create (a very unjust I might add) cult of personality and gets rid of the bureucracy calling it ''monşer'' or ''kemalist vesayet'' he puts everything at stake with his life.
Today even if he dies from natural causes like heart attack, we know there will be a huge chaos. So we must hope he loses an election and accepts he lost before dying.
What does this have to do with Ottoman Empire which was constantly having humiliating defeats and losing lands? Which was the only empire in Europe that couldnt industrialise?
Turks were successful in medieval ages as soldiers and conquerors because of their nomadic lifestyle. Nomadic lifestyle makes you a warrior automatically.
But Turks were never good scholars, sth also was caused by their nomadic lifestyle. There is no one invention or scientific discovery in 622 years of Ottoman history. Let that sink in for a moment.
In that 622 years many of the Turks werent nomads at that point but they still remained backwards in terms of scholarship and science. Without questioning why, without looking at the place that does it good there is no way of advancing as a nation.
You are always taking the emotional high road on me. With an attitude like this there is no way to conduct a constructive discussion. Yes, our ancestors were the best, they founded many empires, they were unbeatable, they were going to conquer the world, nothing went wrong!!!
Why are we living such a miserable life then?
Even the boomer generation Turks right now are failures.