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/339/ Erdogone? People vs Nation in Turkey ft. Alp Kayserilioglu

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The Cultural War Between the CHP and the AKP

The main division between CHP and AKP as the kind of I guess two major parties and their followers is a cultural one. The political Islamic parties never got much more than 20 to 25 percent so this whole Islamic culture against you know secular values it was turned into a cultural war in the 2000s. Right-wing conservative parties have been in government at least in Turkey since 1950 most of the time not so much Republicans by the way. They have been instrumentalizing Islamic identities over the entire this entire 70 basically years, he says.

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