ThunderCat
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A good bulk of them secretly desire to bring back the Ottoman empire and expel Christians and other non Muslims out of their society to "purify" it, just like the Kemalists desired. In their psyche, Christians, Greeks, Armenians, and other Balkanian races are subhumans who are destined to be reconquered by the Turks.
Most Kemalists are religious bigots who desire Shariah, Quora nationalists are shut off from reality.
Partly true. But the upper class Kemalists are deniers of all this. They are Westernized, deniers of this cleansing and think of their country as "gender-equal."
Quora nationalists are mostly some of those. Though Turks are divided. But the upper class of Turkey are the European-loving type of ones.
They are also deniers of these atrocities. The one I knew did not self-identify as Muslim nor did he identify as European.
But he denied non-Muslims exist in Turkey and hated Pakistan, terming it as a "Shariah state."
The guy in the video is not trying to be European. He is in his own country.
10% of his country's population are refugees from countries that are unfriendly to Turkey [Syria/Iraq] which sided with European powers against Ottomons, who had kept the peace in the middle east for centuries. Plus, there are opportunistic illegals from places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan in Turkey. To him these people are more alien than Greeks.
By the way, some early Christian church councils which are part of European Christian history are based from Turkey.
As for his racism, there are more of such people in the countries he is criticizing, including Pakistan. This forum itself is dedicated to demonstrating superiority of Pakistanis over Indians. Afghans believe they are superior to Pakistanis. Iranians believe they are superior. Arabs think they are.
No it's not. Anti-Indian propaganda is also not allowed on this forum. Even though troll threads from both sides are started.
Also your first sentence somewhat contradicts this sentence:
To him these people are more alien than Greeks.