premise: Spellbound after visiting Constantinople in 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany wrote to his friend Tsar Nicholas II, If I had come there without any religion at all, <hypo>! But if todays Europeans rely on this awkward partner to keep refugees away and share intelligence on terrorists, Turkeys slide into paranoid authoritarianism under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes it a far less enticing partner.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "I certainly would have turned Mahommetan"