About the Truth About Turkey

This blog is all about Turkey…simply an outcry of frustration with where the country and its people have come to, over the last 50 years and particularly recently. It simply consists of the blogger’s personal views and is not meant to be rude, forceful or disrespectful towards anyone or institution.


The aim is to clarify what the country is going through from the perspective of a citizen…a citizen who calls oneself a child of modern Turkey, a Kemalist. Now, we, the modernists – Kemalists- are considered as the “fascists” by those who do not have a deep understanding of Turkey’s historical, sociological and political dynamics – mainly non-Turkish media. And this is exactly why this blog is written in English…so that non-turcophones can also follow and try to understand if they wish to do so.

Let me point out first and foremost that from where I stand, it is incredibly saddening to be framed as a “non-liberal” for not wanting the country to lose the secularist system, which grants religious freedom and diversity as opposed to being subjected to psychological pressure to be and act religious and for following the basic ideology of a man whose motto in life has been “Peace at home, peace in the world.” At the end of the day, it is all for universal peace, mutual understanding, harmony and L.O.V.E. I wish everyone could try a little bit to implement it.