But in South Africa only about eight percent of the country is Afrikaner, while in Turkey after Ataturk the overwhelming majority of people were ethnic Turks, except in Kurdish areas. If secularism wasn't popular among the general population that particular philosophy wouldn't have lasted 90 years. Don't forget most Muslims are secular, just as most Christians are.

Ataturk wasn't Turkish. He was Albanian and that brings in another complication, as in South Africa race was and is very important, but in Turkey there was a deliberate attempt to down play ethnicity, and to bring about a homogeneous society, where as in SA the exact opposite was true.

Afrikaners were able to rule the country as they are a first world people and built a first world military. In Turkey it isn't an identifiable minority who are running things.

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Tim Vaughan, 48 years old, member Redeemer OPC, Santa Maria CA.