Turkey: The spread of Islamicism by demographics

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Israel, Turkey, and the End of Stability
Contempt for Israel is contempt for Washington.
by Mark Steyn
Foreign policy “realists,” back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of “stability”: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should learn to live with Mubarak and the mullahs and the House of Saud, etc. You can see the appeal of “stability” to your big-time geopolitical analyst: You don’t have to update your Rolodex too often, never mind rethink your assumptions. “Stability” is a fancy term to upgrade inertia and complacency into strategy. No wonder the fetishization of stability is one of the most stable features of foreign-policy analysis...****Unfortunately, demographics and aggressiveness by one's foes, make this idea false. The Turkey of Kemal Ataturk was based on Rumelia (Eastern Thrace) where Kemal and his "young turks" came from. It was Western, secular, modern, European ( even geographically located in Europe.) Kemal's ideas had to be forced on Analolia, the Asia Minor part of Turkey which was rural, Eastern, traditionalist and Islamic. There were 15Million people at the time of Kemal; there are 70Million now and the Anatolians have far out-reproduced the Rumelians so that Erdogan's accession was not just personal but a de-reformed act that is bringing Turkey further and further away from the West, albeit adding Jew-hatred to what were the other attributes of the Ottoman empire. ****