Further to some discussion already on here, I asked a friend who knows Turkey well that question. His answer:
Not really. Makes Islamism more appealing to the people and leftwing moonbattery more appealing to the educated. I’m actually wondering if Erdoğan has overplayed his hand in trying to gin up outrage— there seems to be a backlash, in some quarters, against the anti-Jewish feeling drummed up, considering Turkey’s historically decent relationship with its own Jews. I kind of wonder if “Gandhi” Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu can run on a very appealing “Return to Normalcy” platform and appeal to people’s drama fatigue.
Plus, the generals aren’t immune to crazy conspiracy theories of their own. The high secular circles of Turkey have long considered the AKP a tool of the U.S. who want to wreck Turkey for…some…reason… Basically, because we didn’t join in their hysteria that the republic was collapsing when Erdoğan was elected and said, “Hey, he’s the elected leader of the country. We congratulate him on his election, and hope to maintain cordial relations.” Like we say in pretty much every election everywhere. Ergo, we were “backing” him and therefore out to ruin Turkey. There is a strong streak of “everyone wants to destroy Turkey” psychosis there left over from the long collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The U.S. is often dragged in as a proxy Britain.
I think Erdoğan may be past his sell-date and this is sort of his opportunistic chance at hanging on…
But we’ll see.






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