The binary presentation suits the needs of propaganda. The Middle East in general and Syria in particular are more complex than that but oversimplifying it all is what the powers that be desire.
Are Sunni Muslims an ethnicity? Especially in societies where religion is always there even if in the background, like a pattern in the wallpaper, religious motivation might intermesh with other motivations (facing poverty at home, search for adventure, feeling blocked in a social sense).
Presumably Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Erdoganist Turkey, perhaps also American NGOs or even the US government, whose relation with radical Sunni Islam seems to be complex and by no means purely hostile.
There was almost certainly some electoral fraud ("No" votes found dumped on a building site close to the Syrian border, for example) and there was a pattern of AKP loyalists threatening No voters, with little or no police interference. If Erdogan had realised it would be so close, there would probably have been more vote-rigging.
I would like to say that with remarks like that, Bush would be demonstrably too stupid to get elected, but in fact an absence of brain cells can actually improve your election chances, unfortunately, and not just in the USA...
The binary presentation suits the needs of propaganda. The Middle East in general and Syria in particular are more complex than that but oversimplifying it all is what the powers that be desire.
They definitely seem to think they have wind in their sails, even though these characters may have needed to visit the pub first.
Are Sunni Muslims an ethnicity? Especially in societies where religion is always there even if in the background, like a pattern in the wallpaper, religious motivation might intermesh with other motivations (facing poverty at home, search for adventure, feeling blocked in a social sense).
Presumably Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Erdoganist Turkey, perhaps also American NGOs or even the US government, whose relation with radical Sunni Islam seems to be complex and by no means purely hostile.
There was almost certainly some electoral fraud ("No" votes found dumped on a building site close to the Syrian border, for example) and there was a pattern of AKP loyalists threatening No voters, with little or no police interference. If Erdogan had realised it would be so close, there would probably have been more vote-rigging.
I would like to say that with remarks like that, Bush would be demonstrably too stupid to get elected, but in fact an absence of brain cells can actually improve your election chances, unfortunately, and not just in the USA...