Can‘t understand these Erdogan fanboys from 3rd world countries mumbling about Islam here and Muslims there. Mostly from states with 55% literacy rate and 55 years life expectancy.
The foundation of Türkiye‘s modernization was Mustafa Kemal‘s vision of a new Turkish state: the adoption of Western science, education and technology, abolition of the Arab script for a higher literacy rate and introduction of strict laicism. And the most important part: national identity and pride. A good Turkish leader has to be a Turk first, a Turk second and a Turk third. Personal belief is a private matter.
The Muslim world is plagued with self-inflicted backwardness, corruption, nepotism, illiteracy, intolerance, violence and laziness. All these paranoid narratives of Western-Zionist conspiracy are lame excuses for own failures of a fallen Islamic civilization.
Only educated, hard-working people can create a strong country. Stop praying, start studying.
Exactly, for some reason it’s always foreigners who talk about how Turkiye should be governed and how Turks should be religious. As you rightly said, religion is a private matter. Turkiye managed to shine itself from the Muslim world thanks to Ataturk modern vision. It was even ahead of most European countries when he firstly introduced his reforms. He laid the foundations for a modern Turkiye. Thank god he existed, otherwise Turkiye would be another shit-hole.