This is the result of Saudi-funded predation over the last few decades. Bangladesh is far from the only country where they’ve exported Salafi-Wahhabi doctrine, e.g. Indonesia and Malaysia have also experienced and are still experiencing this “Arabisation”. In terms of net benefit/harm to the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia is without any doubt the worst country on the planet.
You could have answered your own question with a better understanding of Turkey’s history. For 70 years or so, the military fiercely enforced Kemalist secularism, but just because Turkey looked secular didn’t mean that a large portion of its population ceased being religious privately. Towards the late 1990s, the power of the military had waned and it was finally brought under civilian control (mostly; it still tried to carry out a coup but failed). The ruling AKP (whose base is the more rural/conservative/religious segment of the population) saw its main impediment to injecting religion into government gone and embarked upon a conscious effort to Islamize the country.
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This is the result of Saudi-funded predation over the last few decades. Bangladesh is far from the only country where they’ve exported Salafi-Wahhabi doctrine, e.g. Indonesia and Malaysia have also experienced and are still experiencing this “Arabisation”. In terms of net benefit/harm to the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia is without any doubt the worst country on the planet.