Talk:West Turkeyball/@comment-45325905-20200420193115/@comment-201.182.34.47-20200422224816

Well in this suppose here the split of Turkey is not a democratic and chilled thing, it's a military conflict almost like a civil war.

West Turkey is not really fully loyal to Kemalism as an ideology, they were mostly a NATO protected government, they use Ataturk legacy just because they identify with the West in political terms. Their loyalty to NATO also explains their militarism, since they are technically still in war with its other half.

Their anti-communism is explained in other pages, both East and West Turkey had communist insurgencies that were being sponsered by Soviet Russia.

You mention far east Anatolia and other Kurdish regions being under islamist East Turkey. Well that fits in the history because Kurds were at this time also in an armed insurgency that relates to the communist one.

The anti-arabism comes probably from the nearby Arab countryballs being allied with Soviet Russia and therefore they support insurgents against both Turkeys. They also want to annex Hatay (Iskanderun) and support Arab militant groups there.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that the supposed world here is not very simple, it's a big new cold war with many contexts. And I see West Turkey is obviously a not real Kemalist, I would say rather opportunist.