„The most obvious and prototypical torn country is Turkey. The late twentieth-century leaders of Turkey have followed in the Atatürk tradition and defined Turkey as a modern secular Western nation state. They allied Turkey with the West in Nato and in the Gulf War; they applied for membership in the European Community. At the same time, however, elements in Turkish society have supported an islamic revival and have argued that Turkes is basically a Middle Eastern Muslim society.“
(Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, 1993)
Dummerweise vermehren sich letztere Elemente ungleich schneller. Das Ergebnis ist die AKP als Dauerregierung.
Vor einem ähnlichen Problem stehen die Israelis mit ihren Ultraorthodoxen.