Last year Erdogan gave political refuge to the exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Egypt and Qatar. He has jailed moderate and secular opposition, shut down the free press, arrested those who have reported negatively on his administration, and several reports have strong evidence he has ordered the assassination of journalists.
There is good reason to believe the secular, and more Western, entities within the country are quite simply fed up with the increased -more radical- Islamization of Turkey.
A similar coup d’etat took place in Egypt (2013) when Egyptian General Fattah el-Sisi was pushed to take over from the extreme Muslim Brotherhood Islamist Mohammed Morsi. Could Turkey be undergoing a similar ideological change?
Remember, President Obama is BFF’s with Recep Erdogan. When Erdogan was isolated from much of the Western world, due to his extremist opinions, it was President Obama who rose to defend Erdogan.