This http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/magazine/whose-turkey-is-it.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
is a good article, but it is lacking info about the economic situation and somewhat too positive on Erdogan. It does not give any enlightenment's on Gulen, and I still can not decide what to think of him.
Below are two important comments from the article:
The radicalization of Turkey, its departure from Ataturk's reforms, has been going on for eleven years. The jailing of journalists, changes in school curricula, women back in burka even in Istanbul. It's been a slow process — deliberately slow — and very sure. Erdogan didn't want to attract attention, and because the United States and Europe wanted to think well of him, they let small things slide.
Ergogan’s militant brand of Islam. isn't news. It's just that news organizations chose not to notice.
and:
For the country to move forward, Erdogan must go. He has outlived his usefulness. Erdogan and many AKP members have demostrated their close allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jihadis in Syria. Dont’ forget that Erdogan provide free access to Syira for Jihadi, as well as giving them Medical care and training facilties.
Also don't forget that during the war with Iraq Erdogan refused to allow the US to open a 2nd Front going through Turkey - yet he claimed he needed Patriot batteries to protect him for Assad. He is truly a man that no country can trust as an ally.
If Erdogan gets voted out, there *may* be a nice orderly transition, but it’s more likely that within a year or two we’ll look back on this as the good old days.