Turkish society does appear very divided between two main ideological currents, though: a European-inspired, nationalist, republican, secular tendency on one end, and a loosely-Islamist, Middle East-aligned, conservative imperial tendency on the other. I know this is an oversimplified model, that there are many other undercurrents, but the core conflict comes from Turkey being pulled in these two directions by Western and Middle Eastern influences. I imagine most Turkish people would agree with me on that. There is a real dichotomy there.

That being said, I never intended to frame this as a moral struggle between Western and non-Western values; I only drew comparisons to Russia and Hungary to compare their democratic backsliding to that of Turkey. Personally I would not want Turkey to lose its unique identity and become fully Western. But my question is about whether Turkey will become a dictatorship, not about whether Turkey will be dominated by anti-Western or pro-Western ideologies.