Actually Turkiye became Islamised ever since the Seljuk Turks conquered most of Anatolia.
Anatolia before the Turkish conquest was hellenised and christianised. After the Turks conquered it became a mainly Islamic and Turkic society. I know Islam reached parts of Anatolia well mainly Eastern...
I do believe God created the heavens and the earth.
Barely you literally have people who believe fal and horoscopes all that nonsense.
Rather believe in God than nonsense like amulets and horoscopes.
You got to believe in something. It gives a purpose in life.
You literally do have people who believe that blue thing can protect them from harm.
As much is that video is cringy.
But its actually true people believe in nazar boncugu and good luck charms.
Evolution is a theory. We are not related to monkeys or apes.
If science says we come from monkeys.
A Muslim will say we are made from clay or mud.
While a Turk if he believes in Turkic mythology would say no we come from wolves.
Who is right?
Nothing wrong in believing myths.
Myths are actually what gives people an identity.
What do you believe?
We come from monkeys or wolves?
I do believe Turks come from wolves. Nothing in wrong in that.
Religion has been dominant in politics ever since time began.
Also look up what 1 God, 1 Empire and 1 state means.
Islam and Christianity have been successful because they took existing warrior cultures turned into something that can be used to spread the faith.
They were largely successful...
Erdogan is just an opportunist like all politicians.
What sets him apart is how uses opportunites to bolster his support. By showing how his the defender of faith to his conservative supporters.
Populism has always been in Turkish politics and everybody used it.
How many times religion and...
Thats not true the clergy did not own education.
If you had money you can get all the education you want.
Clergy and Kings has never monopolised knowledge no matter what because if you had the money at the time you had lots of opportunities while peasants could not afford it. Either they...
I guess it makes sense when Arabic was the most spoken during the Islamic world hence why we took up their alphabet and to understand europe and the west we took up latin.
I guess its just evolution.
Our history all we ever did was adopt foreign alphabets.
Sad how rich our history is I guess our nomadic heritage Ieads to us adopting foreign stuff once we become settled.
Dont get me wrong im not against Arabic, Latin, Chinese, Iranic and Cyrillc alphabets but the old Turkic alphabet should...
To cover itself, the Swedish government obtained promises from the Egyptian authorities that the men would not be tortured or subjected to the death penalty, and would be given fair trials. Despite post-return monitoring by Swedish diplomats, both men were tortured in Egypt.
Imagine my shock.