Yes, but I will be wrong, so I will attempt to be brief.
Turkey was built upon coerced secular westernization of a dying empire, to turn the sick man of Europe into a Progressive and Modern state, by any means Necessary. It is a country forged in War and in Peace by Atatürk, a man who even the most staunch western racists still often pay respects to.
This is a nation which, in its infancy gave women the right to vote before most western countries (it took the swiss until 91..), which banned the wearing of the veil on women in public spaces, whose very word for Secularism is taken directly from French (Laïcité), which is an extreme form of secularism even in the West.
They have swung the full gamut of political beliefs, even to the point that eastern devout muslim farmers started voting communist
But in very rough generality -- The Kurdish people have most always been on the, "backward, islamic", etc side which the west looks down upon when painting with a wide brush, whereas I find more of the ideas of Tolerance and Egalitarianism, etc in some of my Turkish friends from the west coast cities than in native Europeans.
Obviously there are issues like Cyprus, and the refugee crisis really polluted the thought pool here, but this is just my 2c.
Turkey was built upon coerced secular westernization of a dying empire, to turn the sick man of Europe into a Progressive and Modern state, by any means Necessary. It is a country forged in War and in Peace by Atatürk, a man who even the most staunch western racists still often pay respects to.
This is a nation which, in its infancy gave women the right to vote before most western countries (it took the swiss until 91..), which banned the wearing of the veil on women in public spaces, whose very word for Secularism is taken directly from French (Laïcité), which is an extreme form of secularism even in the West.
They have swung the full gamut of political beliefs, even to the point that eastern devout muslim farmers started voting communist
But in very rough generality -- The Kurdish people have most always been on the, "backward, islamic", etc side which the west looks down upon when painting with a wide brush, whereas I find more of the ideas of Tolerance and Egalitarianism, etc in some of my Turkish friends from the west coast cities than in native Europeans.
Obviously there are issues like Cyprus, and the refugee crisis really polluted the thought pool here, but this is just my 2c.