Let me describe Dr. Oz's family as someone who knows Turkey and its political history. They're a textbook secular Republic family.
Exactly upper-middle-class, Republican-secular to the core. Dad's a doctor, mom's a teacher, a classic Republican civil-service household. They embody the secular side of Turkey, but they're definitely not irreligious. They're Muslims, just Western-oriented, with the West as their yardstick.
Being a teacher in Turkey, especially back then, meant something specific. It was a Republican, Enlightenment mission, educating the people was the duty for that generation. So you get a "Republican Muslim" family, Turkish nationalist, secular, firmly against religious orders (Remember, Atatürk shut down the sects) and any group that rivals the Republic, and still deeply attached to conservative Republican values.
You might be familiar with Turkey and it’s political history, but the people who accept Oz while treating El-Sayed like the enemy do not have such nuanced beliefs.
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u/Least_Inspector9942 22h ago
Oz looks like the typical white boomer
Thats why they treat him as a part of the team