Something definitely wrong when Jedi religion becomes an issue of national political controversy | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Across the galaxy, Star Wars fans are eagerly awaiting the December release of The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the sci-fi saga. But in Turkey, the force is having a different sort of effect—at least for some conservative Muslims. In August, the official magazine of the Diyanet, Turkey’s state-run religious authority, published an article about…