istanbul is to turkey what new york is to the usa - an outlier, nothing in common with the rest of the country.

i have a friend who was a human rights lawyer in turkey, defending kurdish dissidents - he lives in austria now, cause after being in jail, being tortured, etc he had enough. real, nasty torture, not loud music.

turkey is on its way back into islam, atatürk's laicistic idea of countryhood is being dismantled.

so, all in all, you have no fucking clue what you're posting about.