I am sure that was exactly what the driver was. The Turkish government still has some of the old line (secularists) but the new group in power is very Islamist and has been purging the secularists. Somebody elsewhere posted that this was because the population of Islamist, rural eastern Turkey has outpaced the urban (more secularist) population in growth, and they have been able to vote in a much more Islamist government.
Considering that in the rural areas of Turkey, with Muslim men being allowed to have more then one wife and with larger families, this comes as now surprise.
Big question, will the military end up having to do a “house cleaning”?