The tensions from the Kizilbash – and now Alevi – population in Turkey are still relevant. Erdogan, perhaps serving in some way as a modern-day Sultan, is seemingly exercising a revived interest in state adherence to Sunni orthodoxy.
Perhaps this relates to tensions with the Shi’i Iranians, filling in the role of the modern day Safavids?
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