Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
The most important problem that Turkey has is education.
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.
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