Turkish fertility today is already below replacement and converging on European levels. It shows the same pattern we have seen in Iran and across the Muslim world: educated and literate Turkish women are having one and sometimes two children, while illiterate women in Anatolia’s eastern back country are having four. For Turkey, that constitutes an existential threat. The most fecund group in Turkey is the Kurds, the restive fifth of the country who have been fighting for independence for decades. By the middle of this century, two-fifths of the total Turkish population and the majority of
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The meek will inherit the Earth. Kurdistan may come into being without a fight. Peaceful partition vote backed by the West?
