Everyday when I look at the news, I see the same stories over and over again. "5 Dead In Iraq: Total Deaths= 50 Gazillion," "Gun Deaths in Manchester," "Terrorists apprehended in Bag-ahag-astan."
So it was with relief that I focused my gaze on an article in Google News today, stating that a second million-strong protest has gripped Turkey, in defence of it's secular Attaturkian heritage.
At last, something that actually conjured an emotion in me.
Is it just me, or is this news fantastic? Hardline Islamic governments forcibly keeping their country's in the Dark Ages all around the world, and yet here is a country with a huge Islamic population, protesting against it's government's slight sympathy towards Sharia law.
And...
The army is on the secularist's side!
Since Attaturk, there have been 3 military-led coups in Turkey in favour of secularism.
No country that I can name in the West defends democracy to THAT extent.
Forget human rights infringements, this country should have been let into the EU a long time ago!
