Whatever you think of Erdogan and his political objectives, if the end result is a more multicultural and cosmopolitan Turkey, how is that a bad outcome for even secular liberals? The alternative vision is more exclusionary and illiberal (and geo-politically naive).
I'm not sure cosmopolitanism is always liberal. Erdoğan's vision of it certainly isn't. I think they'd consider liberalism regressive. I agree with you though, that the opposition's vision is very exclusionary and illiberal.
Social liberalism is confined to a very small minority now in Turkey. It's no longer the major political force it used to be in the 2000s.
Whatever you think of Erdogan and his political objectives, if the end result is a more multicultural and cosmopolitan Turkey, how is that a bad outcome for even secular liberals? The alternative vision is more exclusionary and illiberal (and geo-politically naive).
I'm not sure cosmopolitanism is always liberal. Erdoğan's vision of it certainly isn't. I think they'd consider liberalism regressive. I agree with you though, that the opposition's vision is very exclusionary and illiberal.
Social liberalism is confined to a very small minority now in Turkey. It's no longer the major political force it used to be in the 2000s.