However this week they showed again to the world, exactly how far from Sweden and European values they really are, by refusing to allow Catholics to reopen one of the iconic churches of Christianity, the St Paul’s Church in Tarsus, in South Western Turkey.
As the Catholic church pointed out, Muslims in Germany and Europe, face virtually no restrictions (other than standard planning laws), on opening Mosques, even when its hard to justify them.
However all Christian churches in Turkey, are either desecrated (treated as army garages etc), or as being either 'mosques' or museums e.g. Hagia Sophia (Santa Sophia) in Istanbul, which is the 2nd Holiest church in the Orthodox Christians faith, but is a museum.
As usual in a Muslim country, Christians are blocked at every attempt to re establish even the tiniest area of Christianity, and attempts to 'reform Islam in Turkey', are just a smoke screen to cover practical measures being undertaken to drive all non Muslims from Muslim lands.
Turkey is not becoming anymore "European", and even the brave men and women who try to open Turkey up to facing its past, can't compensate for the drift into Islamisation that has taken hold in Turkey in recent years under Erdogan.
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