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Re: etymology of "halk"

Wiktionary has a secondary meaning of خَلْق = "creation" in the sense of the collective noun meaning "all that exists".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%82#Pronunciation_3

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Thanks for the interesting reading here. One twist....if Steve was a Kurd let say named Selatin - who both by appearance and behavior embraced that heritage (lets assume mid-50s male, speaking kurdish, dressing traditional and practicing sunni islam) which form of Turkish nationalism would be most open to this person without attempting to change them?

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Milli Görüş

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They got quite the range if they can accommodate both a Christian Steve (but not a globalist one) and a Kurdish Selatin. Frankly, I thought it would have been the secularists with the big umbrella. The global progressive / conservative divide gets a little flipped in Turkey. Thank you for teaching.

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Well, it depends on what we mean by "secularists." Remember that the Ulusalcı are a very small group. I do think the left has the biggest umbrella, and that CHP voters would on balance be most comfortable with someone like him, as would anyone left of the CHP.

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