That is very unlikely, because Turkey is much more resistant to ultra-Islamic movements than people think. Yes, it has become more conservative than it used to be, but only because we have shifted our identity as a society more towards the east. And yes, the government has actively encouraged this.
But believe me, Europe is not our way, neither in faith nor in social behavior or in any form of justice.
I know it's easy for me to say because I live in Germany, but here neither Turks nor Kurds or Turks/Kurds in combination are treated fairly as Muslims or Alevis or anything like that. The only thing they tolerate in Germany is when a Turk or Kurd drags his own country into the mud. They call that integration.
The next moment, they stab him in the back and still denigrate him.
I prefer a slightly more conservative society with values to a liberal society that seeks to join Europe but is not accepted and is rejected. Neo-Ottomanism is the only available path that works. This does not mean living in a Sharia, but making other countries in the Middle East, Far East and Africa more liberal, at our level and not theirs.
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