There have been a lot of Islamic inspired terrorism in Turkey too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism#Turkey
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2274180/Turkey-shooting-Six-dead-in-US-consulate-attack-in-Istanbul.html
and some obscure assasinations against laic (atheist) journalists or writers.
I dunno. The way I read her statement she says like you can look at the faces of two Turkish people from mainland and the coast and you can tell they're different - and Turkish person from the coastline is Greek descendent. It's straighforward and not exactly true. Turkey is a very mixed...
I would say it's little bit racist assumption to make. Though the cultural and political differences between coastline and mainland Turkish people kind of verifies this assumption. Just have a look at this map of the 2009 local elections in Turkey ...
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