Two things stand out from this to me. One is that Turkey is the gateway between the middle east and Europe. This gives it much power.
The other is the people of Turkey remember their history whereas we aren’t even taught it in school like it should be. Perhaps the Turks see the slow degradation of homosexuality, gender confusion, and transgenderism as something they don’t want to tolerate in their country so they are given two impossible choices. Turn toward a dictatorship and the old ways and away from Westernizing or embrace/allow the disease of leftism into their national collective.
Neither is a good choice. At least this way they retain their identity and can at a later time loosen the tight grip of Islam again. There doesn’t seem to be any way of coming back from the degenerate leftist transition so far. Brexit and voting in President Trump have been the two closest things to date.
The Turks never have forgotten the Battle of Vienna.
One thing they’ve forgotten is the Armenian genocide.
You think a country that had rulers with dozens or hundreds of concubines, and eunuchs minding them and many men with up to 4 wives, there weren’t plenty of people seeking pleasure in any possible combination. The first link below is a rather idealized view written from a middle east/Muslim Indian perspective. The second one is written from a strong Christian perspective. The third is a whole scholarly book on the subject.
http://shoebat.com/2014/12/05/islam-religion-homosexuality-pedophilia/