Turkey was never physically colonized, rather it was occupied for 5 years after world war 1. That doesn't invalidate my point though. Turkey had gone through a reformist movement since the mid 1800's, they call it a re-roganisation. This was them built upon by Attaturk with his Kemalist ideology. Throughout this period of history Turkey/the Ottoman Empire was weakening and there was a cultural undercurrent that they needed to be more like Europe to compete with Europe. Attaturk took it into hyperdrive with the change of dress and the forced secularisation and anti Islamic policies. Mentally, they were colonised, it was the same mental effect as colonialism.
In colonised countries you still see an inferiority complex towards their colonisers. Those of us who have lived with our former colonisers and bettered them, don't have that problem anymore, many back home are appreciating their own worth too, but there are still plenty of brown sahibs who'll boast about British railway tracks being a legacy of development, rather than being the means by which the British moved their troops and arms quickly to destroy any resistance to their occupation.
Turkey suffered from the same inferiority complex, the people who suffered that complex seized power and influenced Turkey for generations. AKP don't suffer that complex, that why they are loved by Muslims around the world, and most Turks have realised their own self worth.
Those who haven't should do so too. There many be temporary economic set backs, but long term Turkey is a Prince in Asia, and always a Pauper in Europe. Europeans have an entrenched hatred of Muslims, they'll never consider the Turks their own. We only have to look at the slaughter of ethnic Europeans in Bosnia who happened to be Muslims, to see how well they are treated. Less than 30 years ago.