This is a form of decentralization. China is seen as world factory and that should not be forever. Manufacturing capacities should be spread all over the world and not centralized in one country. This is to avoid one country to control entire world. Turkey should imposing tariffs on imports from China will support local producers and that is a good thing. China retaliating will surelly hurt Turkey in short term (if happen) - but in the long term it will be beneficial.
The world trade is already decentralized. That what makes it so difficult to break it apart. Trump gets to punish China in his mind, the entire supply chain from the US to Japan and Germany is hurt.
Turkey, in the meantime, is not part of this larger global supply chain. Your economy, from the very early on, is not designed as an East Asian export-oriented model - probably because your close economic ties with Europe (specifically with Germany).
China's strength comes from having entire supply chains readily available in country or nearby industrial powerhouses such as Japan and Korea. Anything can be made within the regional production chain. Korea and Japan are just next door. And then there is Taiwan province. Business communities are very closely tied and it goes very East Asian style. "We get together, eat hot pot, drink beers, and becomes good friends by the end of the night." This is what the CEO of the SoftBank said. LOL.
I do not think Turkey does not have such kind of region. So, you cannot make stuff as efficiently, in good quality, and affordable possible. Hence, if you shut the door on China (which would be terrible for your consumers and retailers), someone else will replace it. But, it won't be Turkey.
Besides, tariffs do not hurt China much. In 2017, about 10% of GDP came from exports. 60% came from internal consumption. In that regard, Germany is much more reliant on exports for growth.
I guess you can easily hurt Germany. Of course, they can hurt you back even more. In the end, you lose relatively more.
World need cheap labor. Who can be next to China?
Africa?
Southeast Asia?
South Asia?
Middle East?
And certain states in the Balkans.
Millions of informal sector workers in Turkey and other officially-higher paying countries?
But none of them does have the required infrastructure, regional supply chain, logistics, industrial clusters, skilled workforce, and developmentalist state. Some have some. But, none has all.