I have lived bith in Pakistan and Turkey. It is amazing how identical our people, culture and habits are. I think that our neighbouring countries have a lot to do with how the history has taken its course and toll on us.

Turkey is linked to Greece on one side and Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Syria on the other. Except for Iran, all these countries share the same Roman heritage and are fairly moderate and secular. Note that, communist threat had bothered both Pakistan and Turkey.

Pakistan shares borders with morally corrupt and culturally backword India at one side while religiously fanatic Iran and politically torn Afghanistan on others.

You see many times your geological situation also determines the course of society.

I have been to school in Turkey and had Turks in my class in Pakistan. We are one and the same. If it were not for the British Raj in Pakistan and 1st world war, we probably would have been speaking the same language too.

Pakistani Aukaab (Pakistani Falcons)
Turk Kurtlar (Turk Wolves)

Both fiercely independent, proud of their heritage and are uncontrollable…….. In other words, these are the nations that will survive to the end of times. (Insha-Allah)

To me Mustafa Atta Turk was a great person. It is due to him that Turkey has so far modernised. I am a Muslim but I fear so called Islamisation. Islamisation is itself no particular way to every Muslim. One Muslim practice something different than another Muslim. The first effect of Islamisation is that people of different Islamic sects start fighting with each other each trying to impose their own ideology on other sects. People of religion should be fully allowed to practice their religion and do not fight others because another person is from different sect.