April 27, 2009

Turkey is not very secular

Mark Hackard’s piece on Turkey is very informative.  The idea of “secular” Turkey is one of those relative-slights-of-hand.  In fact Turkey is arguably a more religious society than the United States.  Here are a few data from World Values Survey where I compare Turkey to Italy, as Italy is one of the more religious of European nations:

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