And they want to join the EU....................
I don't think AK party supporters really want to. It's the people who look west and are against them that think it would help them to remain western and secular. Generalisations are of course all wrong but I am only trying to suggest one of the issues that's going on: Turkey is basically split between Ataturk fans who believe in secularism and the upraised poor who are religious and don't give a fig about the west or the EU and are delighted to thumb their noses at the educated middle-class EU-likers. Shades of....well...you know.