Actually, Turkey's new President, Erdoğan, is an Islamist. He and his party have fundamentally changed Turkey's constitution to remove many of the controls inserted by Ataturk to preclude Islamists from restoring a Caliphate to Turkey.
Erdoğan has designs for Turkey. He sees himself as the new Sultan. Witness the first thing he did after being elected as President was to go to the Eyüp Sultan mosque for prayers. (Eyüp Sultan was traditionally the place that new Sultans/Caliphs went to pray before their coronation). He also has designs to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque.
Then we can go into Erdoğan's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. But I don't want to belabor this post any more than necessary. But I will remind you, in case you have forgotten, that the Muslim Brotherhood loves Erdoğan and Erdoğan loves the Muslim Brotherhood.
Most telling is the declaration a couple of weeks ago by the chairman of the Islamic Union of Muslim Scholars, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is a supporter of the re-establishment of Istanbul as the capital of Turkey and the home of a restored caliphate. And, oh, by the way: al-Qaradawi's words about Erdoğan, “Erdoğan will succeed because Allah, Gabriel, Salih Al-Muminin (the Righteous of the Faithful) are with him and after that the Angelic Host will appear”.
I agree with what you say about Turkey. It’s just this ‘the US supported and trained ISIS’ accusation which, by the way, has left it’s advocates in a state of apoplexy that I’m ridiculing. It’s ignorant, absurd and galling. It ranks right up there with Rosie O’Donnell and the WTC ‘cutter charges’.