Sorry, nonsense. Even with coups every decade, Turkey of old was miles more democratic than many others.
Turkey's diplomacy resulted from political instability (the 80s small-scale civil war). Whenever a political party was able to stabilise the country, it would become authoritarian, and the only thing stopping the country from becoming a full-scale dictatorship was the Turkish military.
Turkiye has always been a flawed democracy from the start.
Country has coups, authoratarianism and totaltarianism you had one party ruling for decades also had censorship numerous times. Not just Tayyip who engaged in censorship. While at the same time it has elections and a supreme court which is independant.
Adnan Menderes got hanged by the military. Eventhough his career was finished his execution basically turned him into a martyr.
Turkiye is just complex really.
the problem is that the election system in turkey can not be called democratic as the system lets politicians be extremely corrupt. politicians never need to be accountable to the people since there is no way of voting a person out of office, this is because of the The
D'Hondt method, a
party-list proportional representation system. the D'Hondt method keeps garbage political parties in parliament while the closed party-list system protects corrupted and treasonous individuals from being voted out of office since all they need to do is be a crony to whoever is running the party.
the The
D'Hondt method, a
party-list proportional representation system, combines to give Turkey gets the worst parts of a democracy without any of it's strong points at this point Turkey would have been better off being an absolute monarchy.
ironically Erdoğan actually made Turkey somewhat more democratic by switching over to a presidential system. The presidential system gave Turks the ability to hold the government accountable as they can now vote out a politician from his office, not to mention politics now need to openly run for election instead of hiding behind their political party, which is run like a dictatorship from the inside.
I believe it is because of this fact that so many politician desire to return to the old parliamentary system of government instead of fine-tuning the presidential system so that it has checks and balances.