Because the Islamasists in the government of Turkey want to hate Israel and shout ‘Death to the Jews!” with the Arabs and the Persians, but the Turkish people, on a whole, do not, and like to consider themselves a European or at least Western people.
I know a lot of Turks who are very dismayed by all of this, but do not know how to reign in Erdogan.
It was the military that used Islam to reign in the socialists. Today, the secularists cannot reign in a popular leader. Ataturk was long ago. Now the secularist option is socialism. Pick your medicine.