> I had always heard this explained as fundamentalists leaving Turkey because its secular laws were more restrictive Not so much fundamentalists fleeing from s

> I had always heard this explained as fundamentalists leaving Turkey because its secular laws were more restrictive Not so much fundamentalists fleeing from secularism, but people emigrating from the poorest backwater parts of the country, where, coincidence or not, both religious traditions and AKP are much stronger than in well-educated urban regions.